Temporal’s 2026 Dev Report: 80.8% of Engineers Use AI Agents Daily

Temporal's 2026 State of Development report, based on a survey of 554 engineers and engineering leaders in the US and UK, found that 80.8% of engineers now use AI agents daily, up from 47.3% a year ago, a 70.8% jump. However, the report also reveals that engineers disagree on how to run agents reliably, highlighting a gap between teams that have mastered the technology and those that have not.

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