--- title: Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer... description: Stack Overflow reviews year-over-year Developer Survey data ahead of the 2026 results, comparing 2024 and 2025 findings on AI tool adoption, work environments,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-ready-for-2026-results-a-look-back-on-developer-survey-findings-nfkgnbed1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings | daily.dev og:description: Stack Overflow reviews year-over-year Developer Survey data ahead of the 2026 results, comparing 2024 and 2025 findings on AI tool adoption, work environments,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-ready-for-2026-results-a-look-back-on-developer-survey-findings-nfkgnbed1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NFkGNBED1.png og:image:alt: Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings 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. # Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings **[Stack Overflow Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/stackov)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Stack Overflow reviews year-over-year Developer Survey data ahead of the 2026 results, comparing 2024 and 2025 findings on AI tool adoption, work environments, and community learning. AI tool usage climbed from 62% to 79% between 2024 and 2025, with agent adoption reportedly jumping to 59% in an April 2026 pulse survey, yet favorable sentiment among learners fell from 72.2% to 52.8%. The piece also covers shifting remote/hybrid work patterns, tool adoption (Docker, Kubernetes, Cursor, Claude Code), regional job satisfaction differences, and compensation growth across roles, framing open questions for the upcoming 2026 survey. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of developers were using AI agents as of the April 2026 pulse survey compared to the 2025 Developer Survey? Agent usage rose to 59% in an April 2026 pulse survey compared to 31% in the 2025 Developer Survey. Claude Code usage among agent users also increased in that period, from 41% to 55%, while ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot remained the most common tools among agent users overall, at 82% and 68% respectively in 2025. _Anyone weighing agent adoption for their team can track these usage shifts as they unfold on daily.dev._ ### How has favorable sentiment toward AI tools changed among students learning to code between 2024 and 2025? Favorable sentiment among students learning to code fell from 72.2% in 2024 to 52.8% in 2025, even as AI tool usage among that group rose from 63.0% to 73.3%. Skepticism quadrupled from 6.4% to 26.3%, and confidence in AI output accuracy also declined, suggesting growing usage does not equal growing trust. _Educators and mentors gauging how learners actually feel about AI tools can follow this data on daily.dev._ ### How did fully remote work rates change between 2024 and 2025 according to Stack Overflow's Developer Survey? Fully remote work dropped from 38.0% of respondents in 2024 to 32.4% in 2025, while strictly in-person work also declined slightly, from 20.0% to 17.9%, as hybrid arrangements diversified into multiple structured models. The United States led in fully remote participation at 45.0%, while India had the highest share of on-site workers at 30.5%. _Teams debating remote versus hybrid policy can compare these workplace trends on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective](https://daily.dev/posts/a-look-back-before-we-look-forward-a-developer-survey-retrospective-73yh1xkv0) · Stack Overflow Blog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [The 2026 Developer Survey is now open \(for human developers only\)\!](https://daily.dev/posts/the-2026-developer-survey-is-now-open-for-human-developers-only--ib9zsv6ag) · Stack Overflow Blog · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Are developers happy yet? 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