# Temporal’s 2026 Dev Report: 80.8% of Engineers Use AI Agents Daily > Source: > Published: 2026-08-31 15:12:25+00:00 Most engineers have crossed the threshold. AI agents are now a daily work tool, not a weekend experiment. Temporal’s freshly released 2026 State of Development report — surveying 554 engineers and engineering leaders across the US and UK — puts the number at 80.8%, up from 47.3% a year ago. That is a 70.8% jump in frequent agent use in twelve months. Read past the headline, though, and a more complicated picture emerges: the same engineers who use agents every day cannot agree on how to run them reliably, and the gap between teams that have figured it out and […] The post