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EYEPAX · 2026
Your
AI Year
in Numbers
A look at how you actually use AI — straight from the survey.
By the numbers
You showed up.
Across engineering, QA, design, finance, HR and leadership.
The clear winner
One name
dominates.
ChatGPT
47 of 110 (43%) call it their #1 tool
22 GitHub Copilot
20 Cursor
7 Claude
Tool stack
The full lineup
Tools you currently use for work — many of you stack 3 or 4.
Where AI shows up
It's not just code.
The top tasks where AI now lives in your daily work.
How you found these tools
Mostly on
your own.
99
people self-researched online
76 YouTube tutorials
53 Colleagues at Eyepax
There's an opportunity here for internal training and a shared playbook.
The funding gap
A third of you
fly solo.
33 / 110
have no client-paid and no Eyepax-paid AI tools
29 are on free tiers only, 12 mix personal + free, 8 pay personally, 2 are on trials.
Payment mix
Free still rules.
Tool-person pairs by how each tool is paid for.
Where it hurts
Top
challenges.
What you want to learn
More than
3 in 4 want…
Self-rated proficiency
You're at 5.6 / 10
On tool usage proficiency. AI knowledge sits at 5.1.
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Most of you cluster in the 4–7 range. Only 10 of 110 rate themselves 8 or higher.
Builders among us
32 of you
have shipped
AI features.
From RAG systems to AI agents, Figma-to-code converters, ATS-aware CV builders, and MCP tools for Cursor.
32 Yes
7 In progress
71 Not yet
Looking ahead
What worries
you most.
Zooming in
By role.
Six designations have five or more respondents. Here's how each one uses AI.
32 Sr SE
18 SE
10 ATL
9 Sr QA
9 QA
5 Sr TL
That's a wrap
Thank you for
sharing how
you use AI.
110 voices. 18 teams.
One direction forward.
Eyepax · AI Adoption Survey · May 2026