Research · 2026

Agentic engineering in 2026: the survey

Most of what gets said about coding agents in engineering orgs is vendor numbers or one person's team. This survey asks the people running the orgs: how much code agents actually write, what happened to review, what it costs, and whether you're still hiring juniors. Ten questions, about two minutes, anonymous.

Results

0 responses so far. Results go up here once there are 30, so no single org's answers can be picked out of them.

Take the survey

Answer for the engineering org you work in. If you don't know a number, say so; a guess skews the result more than a blank.

01How many engineers are in your engineering org?
02What's your role?
03Last month, roughly what share of merged changes were written mostly by a coding agent?
04What's the typical wait for a first review on a change today?
05Compared with a year ago, is that wait shorter or longer?
06Roughly what does your org spend on AI coding tools per engineer per month, in US dollars?
07Do you measure AI cost per merged change?
08Do you have written rules for which agent-authored changes can merge with how much human review?
09Before rolling out a new agent or AI workflow, do you run evals on real tasks?
10Compared with last year, how many junior engineers are you hiring?
0 of 10 answered · anonymous

Method

  • Nothing identifying is collected: no name, no email, no IP address. Only the option you pick for each question is stored.
  • Every answer is a band, such as 20–50 engineers or 10–25% of changes, so no response can be traced to one company.
  • Results publish at 30 responses and update as more come in. The page says how many answers each figure rests on.
  • Respondents choose to answer, so the sample leans toward people who read about engineering leadership. Read the numbers as a picture of that group, not of every engineering org.
  • The results are free to cite under CC BY 4.0, with a link to this page.

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