Agents on a leash: Agentic AI remains mostly single-agent and monitored at work (opens in new tab)

AI’s impact on software engineering continues, and more and more of that AI is packaged as agents as results from our newest pulse survey show agentic usage has almost doubled (59%) since we last asked about it in our annual Developer Survey. Companies are scrambling to provide agent harnesses, infrastructure, and applications, but we wanted to know whether people were actually using agents in their daily work.