The numbers are in, and they are staggering. A comprehensive developer survey published at the start of February 2026 reveals a profession transformed.
Claude Code's Ascent
Anthropic's Claude Code — a terminal-native, agentic coding tool — leapfrogged GitHub Copilot by offering something no IDE plugin could: a model that reads your entire repository, reasons across thousands of files, and executes multi-step tasks autonomously.
What "70% AI Engineering" Looks Like
At Softechinfra, our web development and custom software teams have integrated AI-assisted workflows for over a year. The result is faster delivery with fewer handoff points.
The developer survey of February 2026 will be looked back on as a milestone — the moment the profession formally acknowledged it had changed. Curious how AI-assisted development can accelerate your next project? Talk to our team.
