According to JetBrains' Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026 of more than 15,000 professional developers, 90% used AI coding agents at work at least weekly and 68% daily as of May–July 2026. Claude Code be…
In 2026, AI has become the central nervous system of software development, with IDEs like Copilot X, Cursor, and JetBrains AI evolving into 'development agents' that understand entire codebases and pr…
JetBrains AI tested the Ponytail skill for Claude Code across 80 paired tasks and found it cut code by 15%, cost by 10.3%, and time by 11% — roughly a quarter to a half of the advertised reductions of…
By mid-2026, AI coding tools have entered a price war with nearly all offering free tiers, but user willingness to pay is rising as integration depth becomes the key differentiator. Tools like Cursor …
By mid-2026, AI-assisted development is the default, with over 80% of developers using AI tools weekly. However, every major tool sends code to third-party servers, and context window growth to 200K-5…
MCP (Model Context Protocol) has reached 97 million SDK downloads per month in early 2026, with every major AI coding platform now supporting the standard and over 9,400 servers in the public registry…
In 2026, the AI coding assistant market has matured, with GitHub Copilot becoming the safe enterprise choice integrated into VS Code and Visual Studio, while Cursor gained indie developer mindshare th…