Tasks delegated to AI agents — Knowledge data 2026

Question

For each job function, which tasks have you delegated to an AI tool or agent in the last 30 days?

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	Respondents	Percent
Writing, editing, or generating code	10,027	72.9%
Debugging or troubleshooting	8,552	62.2%
Writing or maintaining tests	6,960	50.6%
Writing or updating documentation	6,642	48.3%
Reviewing code, pull requests, or technical changes	6,182	44.9%
Making technical design or architecture decisions	3,629	26.4%
Investigating an incident, outage, or production issue	3,560	25.9%
Planning, scoping, or estimating work	3,461	25.2%
Answering questions from teammates, customers, users, or stakeholders	2,941	21.4%
Analyzing data, reports, or business metrics	2,773	20.2%
Onboarding to a new project, tool, system, or codebase	2,706	19.7%
Finding or fixing security, privacy, or compliance issues	2,676	19.5%
Changing production code, systems, or infrastructure	2,601	18.9%
Maintaining dependencies, packages, or development environments	2,547	18.5%
None of the above	2,255	16.4%
Monitoring systems, logs, metrics, or alerts	1,864	13.6%
Deploying or releasing software	1,346	9.8%
Coordinating work across teams or functions	774	5.6%

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Stack Exchange Inc. (2026). “Tasks delegated to AI agents”. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026. Licensed under ODbL 1.0. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/knowledge/data/know-agent-delegate

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    {
      "response": "Analyzing data, reports, or business metrics",
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    {
      "response": "Finding or fixing security, privacy, or compliance issues",
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      "response": "Monitoring systems, logs, metrics, or alerts",
      "count": 1864,
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|  | Respondents | Percent |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| Writing, editing, or generating code | 10,027 | 72.9% |
| Debugging or troubleshooting | 8,552 | 62.2% |
| Writing or maintaining tests | 6,960 | 50.6% |
| Writing or updating documentation | 6,642 | 48.3% |
| Reviewing code, pull requests, or technical changes | 6,182 | 44.9% |
| Making technical design or architecture decisions | 3,629 | 26.4% |
| Investigating an incident, outage, or production issue | 3,560 | 25.9% |
| Planning, scoping, or estimating work | 3,461 | 25.2% |
| Answering questions from teammates, customers, users, or stakeholders | 2,941 | 21.4% |
| Analyzing data, reports, or business metrics | 2,773 | 20.2% |
| Onboarding to a new project, tool, system, or codebase | 2,706 | 19.7% |
| Finding or fixing security, privacy, or compliance issues | 2,676 | 19.5% |
| Changing production code, systems, or infrastructure | 2,601 | 18.9% |
| Maintaining dependencies, packages, or development environments | 2,547 | 18.5% |
| None of the above | 2,255 | 16.4% |
| Monitoring systems, logs, metrics, or alerts | 1,864 | 13.6% |
| Deploying or releasing software | 1,346 | 9.8% |
| Coordinating work across teams or functions | 774 | 5.6% |

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