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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/technology/ai-agents-arena.html
Now, a San Francisco start-up called Arena, which tracks hundreds of thousands of artificial intelligence users, is trying to take some of the mystery out of what exactly those digital tasks are.
The company’s service, Agent Mode, showed that over the past few weeks, people used agents for code-writing tasks about 17 percent of the time. Roughly 10 percent of the time, the company said, people used agents to do research.
Research agents were closely followed by agents that create images, generate documents like graphs and spreadsheets or brainstorm ideas. About 5 percent of the time, the users applied agents for creative writing or tutoring and education. Other areas included code debugging, which is related to building software, and chatting.
Now, a San Francisco start-up called Arena, which tracks hundreds of thousands of artificial intelligence users, is trying to take some of the mystery out of what exactly those digital tasks are.
The company’s service, Agent Mode, showed that over the past few weeks, people used agents for code-writing tasks about 17 percent of the time. Roughly 10 percent of the time, the company said, people used agents to do research.
Research agents were closely followed by agents that create images, generate documents like graphs and spreadsheets or brainstorm ideas. About 5 percent of the time, the users applied agents for creative writing or tutoring and education. Other areas included code debugging, which is related to building software, and chatting.
