Same thought - 80% through reading it occurred to me to check the citations. A few items from 2025 and most well before that.

So much has changed since late 2025 one can’t really draw any conclusions from this.

In fact, I’m guessing things will continue to move so fast that by the time one were to execute a survey of developers, many of the responses and findings are no longer relevant.

Your point really goes both ways, we really don't know anything about how LLM usage is affecting anything. No one knows, it's the wild wild west, which is whatever. But I think no one can really draw conclusions from what's happening in tech right now.

Reminds me of COVID and how everyone was fighting over early trends during that time.

Exactly. I saw them using things from 2025... AI sorta sucked then and didn't really "take off" until that Opus drop in December or whatever it was.