90% of Professional Developers Now Use AI Coding Agents Weekly
The survey shows Claude Code has overtaken GitHub Copilot to take the top spot in professional AI coding tool usage, nearly doubling its share.
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JetBrains Research surveyed more than 15,000 professional developers worldwide for its Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026. The findings show 90% use AI coding agents at least once a week, and 68% use them daily at work as of May to July 2026. Claude Code usage rose from 3% in early 2025 to 39% by mid-2026, nearly double GitHub Copilot's 21% share.
The Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026 is the 10th edition of JetBrains Research's ongoing developer survey. Responses were collected from May to July 2026 across eight language regions, with regional allocation and statistical weighting applied for global representativeness.
Awareness of both GitHub Copilot and Claude Code sat at 79%, running at the top, though Claude Code showed a sharper recent increase. Meanwhile, Codex awareness jumped from 27% in January 2026 to 65% by mid-2026 despite a major OpenAI brand behind it.
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