It’s a sneaky statistic. You could say that 100% of the startups I worked at used Windows laptops because at least one person had a Windows computer somewhere.
If you saw the engineers you’d see 80% Macs and 20% Linux laptops.
The statistic would technically be true.
I use Chinese open weight models a lot, but they’re not what I reach for when I’m doing important coding work.
I _evaluate_ open weight models all the time. Does this mean I _use_ them? That's a very suspicious statistic.
I don't use any open-weights models for coding, but I use them heavily for document categorization and extraction. At millions-of-documents scale even the smallest models from OpenAI or Google cost more than running a small model on my own hardware, and for a lot of tasks I don't need the extra intelligence of proprietary models.