80.8% of Engineers Now Use AI Agents Daily, Up from 47.3% a Year Ago, Temporal Reports

My take: Temporal surveyed more than 550 engineers and engineering leaders in the United States and the United Kingdom, and the headline finding is clear: 80.8% now use AI agents daily or more frequently, compared to 47.3% a year ago. That is a 70.8% increase in frequent use in just twelve months.

What that number means in practice is that AI agents are no longer experiments: they are part of the daily work routine. For those building software or leading technical teams, ignoring this transition is no longer a viable option.

The challenge that follows, which the report also highlights, is governance: making sure those agents are reliable, observable, and manageable before a production failure is what reveals the absence of controls.

Does your team already have the monitoring and governance systems in place to manage agents operating autonomously every day?