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Fewer developers hand code comments to AI as a separate task: 34% to 26%.
Base: developers who use AI tools to write code, global survey of 10,000+ developers per wave, Q1 vs Q3 2026.
Liam Bollmann-Dodd's reading: AI writes them as it writes the code.
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Reliance on AI to find security vulnerabilities rose from 1 to 8 in six months.
Base: developers who use AI tools to write code, global survey of 10,000+ developers per wave, Q1 vs Q3 2026.
Liam Bollmann-Dodd on why:
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Reliance on AI for DevOps tasks swung from -9 to +9. The share using AI for them barely moved: 19% to 17%.
Base: developers who use AI tools to write code, global survey of 10,000+ developers per wave, Q1 vs Q3 2026.
Liam Bollmann-Dodd on why:
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Code generation is no longer the top AI task: 49% to 41%. Those still using it rely on AI more: -8 to -1.
Base: developers who use AI tools to write code, global survey of 10,000+ developers per wave, Q1 vs Q3 2026.
Liam Bollmann-Dodd explains why:
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34% of developers say difficulty estimating cost limits how much autonomy they give AI agents.
Agents are being metered. The advantage goes to the vendor whose meter is easiest to read.
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Source: SlashData AI Developer Tools Benchmark, Q3 2026 (n=2,040)
ALT Cover reading "Agent pricing problem" for SlashData's analysis: 34% of developers say difficulty estimating cost limits how much autonomy they give AI agents.
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The AI Developer Tools Benchmark Q3 2026 is out! See how 19 AI developer tools compare on adoption, conversion, and satisfaction.
GitHub Copilot converts 54% of aware developers; Codex and Claude Code 44%. Base: 2,063 professional developers, Q3 2026.
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ALT SlashData graphic: AI Developer Tools Benchmark Q3 2026, out now. 19 tools compared across adoption, conversion, reliance and satisfaction.
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Tomorrow, 16:00 BST: the AI tasks developers are quietly dropping.
About to roll out a new AI tool or AI feature? See which tasks to hand to AI first. Liam Bollmann-Dodd and Petro Ylli, 45 minutes, questions included. The room holds 100.
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62% of developers with 16+ years of experience say AI developer tools cut their time on repetitive tasks. With 0-2 years, it is 42% less time against 44% more.
Base: 4,203 professional developers, Developer Nation Q1 2026.
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ALT Cover reading "AI coding ROI: seniors vs juniors" for SlashData's analysis: 62% of senior developers save time with AI developer tools, against 42% of juniors.
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Only 14% of developers let an AI agent run end to end with minimal or no review.
Bounded autonomy is the most common way developers use agentic tools, so agent messaging lives between those two points. Base: professional developers, Q3 2026 wave.
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ALT Grid chart showing that only 14% of professional developers let an AI agent run end to end with minimal or no review. SlashData AI Developer Tools Benchmark, Q3 2026 wave.
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GitHub Copilot converts 48% of the developers who know it into users. Most tools convert fewer than one in five.
The AI developer tools in the Q3 awareness-to-usage funnel, base professional developers, Q3 2026 wave. Full wave out in early October.
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ALT Ranked bar chart of awareness-to-usage conversion for AI developer tools in the SlashData AI Developer Tools Benchmark, Q3 2026 wave. GitHub Copilot converts 48% of developers who know it into users.
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Know how developers use AI before you build your next AI tool.
Developers are giving AI fewer tasks, but relying on it more for the ones they keep. Liam Bollmann-Dodd shows which ones, live. The room holds 100.
Thu 8 Oct, 16:00 to 16:45 BST.
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One category label, five very different customers.
A user on Wix Harmony, Lovable, Replit, Claude Code or OpenAI Codex is not the same type of customer.
Collapsing them into one category distorts TAM, positioning, onboarding, pricing and governance.
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Measurement changes the verdict, not only the reporting.
Without AI ROI measurement, 13% of engineering executives rate AI tools as not valuable. With it, 4%.
Evidence lets leaders judge AI beyond isolated failures and recent frustrations.
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Builder share puts these platforms at opposite ends of technical maturity:
Wix Harmony 76%–90%, highly non-technical
Lovable and Bolt.new 61%–75%
Replit 41%–60%, mixed
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, BLACKBOX 10%–25%, highly technical
One generic builder experience will not serve all three.
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Private cloud and on-premise are not the same destination. "Cloud repatriation" is used for both.
28% moved from public cloud to private cloud.
24% moved to on-premise.
Private cloud keeps cloud-like operations. On-premise brings different responsibilities entirely.
Workload-level evidence, not architecture-level ideology.
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The category only becomes measurable when you stop counting developers who use AI tools.
"Builders are not developers using AI tools. They are non-coders creating functional software using AI tools."
It now has a measurable audience story, and segmentation that sharpens acquisition, onboarding and pricing.
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SlashData Intelligence for Software Engineering Leaders is a new recurring research programme for engineering leaders.
First release: how software teams measure the return on AI, from 2,341 developers in leadership roles (Developer Nation 31). 88% measure AI impact or ROI, and 39% of those use formal or automated processes.
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Public cloud, hybrid and on-premise are all gaining at the same time.
48% moved services away from public cloud.
46% moved towards hybrid.
35% moved towards public cloud.
Not contradictory. Organisations are making different placement decisions for different workloads.
A single cloud direction is no longer a sufficient strategy.
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Builder audiences are not spread evenly. Largest estimated active populations:
Wix Harmony 7.5M–8.9M
Replit 6.8M–9.9M
Lovable 4.9M–6M
Bolt.new 2.7M–3.4M
Estimates, not reported totals. Usage figures standardised, non-coder share estimated, market corrected for multi-tool overlap.
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