Hi Jan,
We just closed the analysis on our Q1 2026 AI Impact Report, and I wanted to forward it to you in case it’s valuable for you and your team.
Here’s the link to access the full report, and here’s a quick look at some of the findings:
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Junior engineers now save more time with AI than Staff+ engineers. Junior engineers now saving 4.9 hours/week vs. 4.8 for staff+. Last quarter, Staff+ engineers were regaining the most time.
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Shadow AI persists. Developers frequently bypass official channels to use unapproved tools. Organizations should establish clear acceptable use policies rather than attempting to outright block experimentation.
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Quality remains volatile. While some organizations are seeing clear improvement to quality as AI usage increases, others are seeing serious degradation, with many swinging significantly.
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Engineering managers are shipping more code than ever. Engineering managers using AI daily now ship 4x as much code as non-users—a significant increase from last quarter.
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Agentic tools and Rust pull ahead. Agentic tools like Cursor saw a 46% increase in PR throughput for daily users. Language-wise, Rust has pressed forward, with Rust-specific reasoning improvements appearing in models such as Claude 3.7 and Gemini 3.0.
The full report is linked here: Q1 2026 AI Impact Report.
If any of these findings raise questions for your team, I'm always happy to dig in.
-Brook