18 August 2026

Linear surveys AI usage across software development teams

• Linear, a project-management platform for software teams, analyzed how tens of thousands of its users are adopting AI tools in their daily work.
• The analysis measured where AI is being used: planning documents, issue tracking, pull requests (code submissions), and coding agents (AI that writes code automatically).
• Linear tracked these patterns by job role and company size to show which teams and types of work are adopting AI fastest.

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Linear analyzed AI adoption across tens of thousands of software teams, measuring usage by role and company size, and tracking changes in planning, issue creation, pull requests, and coding-agent activity.