--- title: 2026 State of AI Engineering — Barr Yaron, Amplify Partners description: Results from the 2026 State of AI Engineering survey (1,048 respondents) reveal key trends: text dominates modalities but audio has the highest intent to adopt... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/2026-state-of-ai-engineering-barr-yaron-amplify-partners-wqu0pzwqo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 2026 State of AI Engineering — Barr Yaron, Amplify Partners | daily.dev og:description: Results from the 2026 State of AI Engineering survey (1,048 respondents) reveal key trends: text dominates modalities but audio has the highest intent to adopt... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/2026-state-of-ai-engineering-barr-yaron-amplify-partners-wqu0pzwqo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wqu0pZwQo.png og:image:alt: 2026 State of AI Engineering — Barr Yaron, Amplify Partners og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 2026 State of AI Engineering — Barr Yaron, Amplify Partners **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Results from the 2026 State of AI Engineering survey (1,048 respondents) reveal key trends: text dominates modalities but audio has the highest intent to adopt (56%); image generation usage doubled to 36%; 94% use closed models while 45% also use open-weight models as augmentation; 87% of teams use more than one model; cost is now a first-class engineering constraint affecting 75% of respondents; agent adoption nearly doubled to 95% of teams, with write-enabled agents tripling year-over-year; eval remains the top stack challenge; 97% report net positive organizational impact; and over a third of teams now have non-developers shipping features. 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