---
title: "Satisfaction with AI tools — AI data 2026"
url: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/ai/data/ai-sat
year: 2026
chapter: "ai"
question: "AISat"
section: "AI at work"
licence: "ODbL 1.0 (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/)"
---

# Satisfaction with AI tools

AI most improves satisfaction with debugging (66%), documentation (61%), and implementation (60%). Implementation is also most polarizing: 20% report decreased satisfaction.

Asked as: When using AI tools or AI agents at work, which of the following have increased or decreased your usual satisfaction with completing the task? Select one answer for each. (`AISat`, scale, optional, v2026.1)

## Options offered

1. Design
2. Implementation
3. Review
4. Debugging/refactoring
5. Documentation
6. Architecture exploration
7. Communication

## Results

### All Respondents

n = 12,125

|  | Greatly decreased | Somewhat decreased | No change | Somewhat improved | Greatly improved |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| Architecture exploration | 4.5% | 4.8% | 35.8% | 31.9% | 22.9% |
| Communication | 10.0% | 7.9% | 49.5% | 19.2% | 13.5% |
| Debugging/refactoring | 4.3% | 6.2% | 23.4% | 35.7% | 30.4% |
| Design | 5.8% | 7.3% | 39.4% | 28.7% | 18.9% |
| Documentation | 4.6% | 5.2% | 29.6% | 27.9% | 32.7% |
| Implementation | 8.2% | 11.7% | 19.9% | 33.6% | 26.5% |
| Review | 5.3% | 6.6% | 32.8% | 32.3% | 23.0% |

In context: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/ai/data.md