"One of the really interesting findings was the median date when developers started using AI tools. They found it was April 2024, which corresponds fairly neatly to Claude 3 coming out and Gemini 2.5 coming out. This is really the dawn of the reasoning or thinking models, and around that same time, we got much better at tool-calling. For coding tasks, you really need to be able to leverage external information in order to problem solve,"
"Most of my coding these days is for hobby projects, and I spend most of my time using command line-based tools. So that includes Gemini CLI. Then there's a little bit of Claude Code, little bit of Codex in there. And you don't ever really use a terminal-based tool by itself, so I'm really heterogeneous around the IDEs that I use. I use Zed. I use VS code. I use Cursor. I use Windsurf, all of them,"
Median developer adoption of AI tools occurred in April 2024, aligning with Claude 3 and Gemini 2.5 releases and the emergence of reasoning-capable models. Improved tool-calling allowed models to leverage external information, such as grepping and compiling code, and to run unit and integration tests. Tool-calling enabled iterative self-correction during coding tasks. Practical usage blends command-line AI tools like Gemini CLI with other models including Claude Code and Codex. Development workflows remain heterogeneous across IDEs such as Zed, VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf, reflecting varied preferences and toolchains.
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