57.8%About 6 in 10of developers with 1 to 5 years of work experience use AI coding assistants or agents, the lowest of any experience group

Publisher

Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow Developer Survey

Source type

Survey: Sampled survey with a published method

What it measures

57.8% of developers with 1 to 5 years of work experience use AI coding assistants or agents, the lowest of any experience group

Data period

Jun to Aug 2026 (ends 5 Aug 2026)

Published by the source

6 Oct 2026

Who is counted

n = 4,094 respondents with 1 to 5 years of work experience.

In the source's words

1 - 5 yrs work exp n = 4,094 | AI coding assistants or coding agents | 2,366 | 57.8%

Checked at source

23 Oct 2026: Read on survey.stackoverflow.co 2026, AI tool usage by respondent group (Markdown edition). New stat.

Reuse

Survey data under the Open Database Licence (ODbL 1.0). Self-selected online survey, mostly Stack Overflow users; not a random sample of all developers. Question wording changes between years.

Next expected update

31 Oct 2027 (Stack Overflow, yearly (2026 results 6 Oct 2026))

Original page

survey.stackoverflow.co: Stack Overflow Developer Survey

Data files

CSV · JSON (stable links)

No changes recorded yet. First checked at the source on 23 Oct 2026.

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