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Twelve months ago, 12% of developers told us AI wrote half or more of their code.
We put the same question to 705 developers in our Q3 2026 Dev Barometer, and that number is now 42%.
@carlfranzen covered the findings for @VentureBeat. 🧵
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Our CEO, Darren Shimkus, compared it to what CAD did to architecture: "The job hasn't gotten smaller; it's moving up a level."
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Read the full article: venturebeat.com/data/the-sha…
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AI is now saving developers 13 hours a week in coding, nearly double last year, but almost none of it has become free time.
The hours went into harder work: deciding whether what the tools produced is correct, and owning that decision.
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The job did not get lighter. It moved up a level, and that is a different kind of engineer than most job descriptions were written for.
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The full report is out now: bairesdev.com/blog/dev-barom…
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In Q3 2025, developers told us AI was saving them about 7 hours a week in coding. We asked the same question again this year.
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Same question, same methodology, and twelve months in which AI assistance stopped being an experiment for most developers and became part of how the work gets done.
The number changed, but where those hours went turned out to be the bigger finding.
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Cut headcount to capture AI savings, and the work those roles were doing doesn’t disappear. It reappears, informally, on your senior engineers and operators.
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His full piece lays out the three-step model for mapping AI adoption to outcomes, from naming the outcome to assigning explicit ownership.
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Read the full article: baires.dev/rmlo
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