Interesting look at how GenAI usage has changed by Harvard Business Review.
I’ve seen a marked change since Christmas in its usage… it seems to have jumped from something most early adopters were experimenting with to something now being used daily.
You can see this in the graphic, with personal and professional support leaping up to first place.
My big 3 takeaways:
- We’re significantly expanding our use of GenAI beyond specific use cases into much broader and more coupled usage. It is now part of our day-to-day. Helping us to mentally process, organise and learn.
- Despite support for coding being strongly referenced as a use case for programmers, it is only in 2025 that it has become a top 10 use case (for both generating code and improving code). The tooling to support this has also significantly progressed.
- Probably my biggest use case change in the past 6 months has been using GenAI for creativity, and that, along with generating ideas, are both now a top 10 use case.
The last takeaway is especially interesting as it transforms the way you get things done. Already, I am automating some of the things I used to do manually with the help of agents.
By the end of the year I expect we will see easier ways to automate more complex tasks using agents and the tech allowing us to connect external systems (MCP) becoming much more easily accessible.
You can read the full HBR article here: https://hbr.org/2025/04/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025
