90% of Devs Use AI at Work — But Here's the Trust Problem Nobody's Solving
The Numbers Are In JetBrains just dropped their January 2026 AI Pulse survey (10,000+ devs worldwide), and the headline number is staggering: 90% of developers now regularly use at least one AI too...

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The Numbers Are In JetBrains just dropped their January 2026 AI Pulse survey (10,000+ devs worldwide), and the headline number is staggering: 90% of developers now regularly use at least one AI tool at work. But the more interesting story is which tools and what's breaking. The Tool Landscape: Winners and Stalls Here's the adoption breakdown for professional work (not side projects): Tool Work Adoption Trend GitHub Copilot 29% ⏸️ Stalled Cursor 18% ⏸️ Slowing Claude Code 18% 🚀 6x growth in 9 months ChatGPT (chatbot) 28% Stable Google Antigravity 6% 📈 New entrant OpenAI Codex 3% Early The big story: Claude Code went from 3% to 18% adoption in under a year, with the highest satisfaction (91% CSAT) and recommendation (NPS 54) scores in the market. Copilot still leads, especially in enterprises (40% in companies with 5,000+ employees), but its growth has flatlined. The Real Problem: Trust at Scale Here's where it gets interesting. Fortune reported yesterday that the bottleneck in AI-assi