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Covered by 3 sources See all sources covering this story including dzone.com, anjalishriva.comDiscussed on Hacker News

Claude Code dominates tool usage, leaders are more positive about AI than engineers, staff+ engineers are the biggest users of AI agents, and more. Exclusive data and analysis from 900+ respondents

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Stop Using the ATM-Didn’t-Kill-Jobs Story to Reassure Developers About AI

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Agents Need Work Data: A Primer on RLWD, or Reinforcement Learning on Work Data

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