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96 AI, LLM, and Vibe Coding Statistics for 2026

A list of 100 interesting stats related to AI, LLM, and vibe coding.

Maab Saleem
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“Vibe coding is a fad. Give it a year.”

Well, we gave it more than a year. And we all know how that turned out.

Vibe coding (sorry, agentic engineering) stuck around, and so did everything that came with it: the tools, the money, the layoffs, the dirty code, and the security problems.

Below are some AI, LLM, and vibe coding statistics from the last two years that put real numbers on all of it.

AI Adoption Statistics

  • In 2026, 44% of organizations said AI was scaling across their enterprise, up from 38% in 2025. The State of AI in 2026, McKinsey
  • In 2026, 37% of organizations attributed at least some of their Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) to AI. The State of AI in 2026, McKinsey
  • In 2026, 40% of organizations with over $1 billion in revenue were scaling their use of AI agents. The State of AI in 2026, McKinsey
  • In September 2026, 55.9% of US businesses on Ramp’s platform paid for AI tools. Ramp AI Index, October 2026
  • Between December 2025 and May 2026, 37% of US firms with at least 250 employees used AI. US Census Bureau
  • As of May 2026, the Information sector had the highest AI use rate of any US industry at 39.7%, followed by Finance and Insurance at 33.9%. US Census Bureau
  • In 2025, 55% of large EU enterprises used AI. Use of Artificial Intelligence in Enterprises, Eurostat
  • Denmark had the highest share of enterprises using AI in the EU in 2025 at 42%, and Romania had the lowest at 5.2%. Eurostat
  • In early 2026, 56% of CEOs said AI had delivered no significant financial benefit so far, and only 12% saw both lower costs and higher revenue from it. 29th Global CEO Survey, PwC
  • Gartner predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027. Gartner

AI Spending and Investment Statistics

LLM Usage Statistics

  • More than 1.2 billion people use ChatGPT each week as of October 2026. OpenAI
  • ChatGPT had more than 50 million paying subscribers in March 2026. OpenAI
  • More than 1 billion people use the Gemini app every month as of August 2026. Google
  • The Gemini app generates more than 150 million images every day. Google
  • Microsoft had over 30 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats in July 2026. Microsoft FY26 Q4 Earnings Call
  • As of late 2025, 54% of US teens had used chatbots to help with schoolwork, and one in ten did all or most of their schoolwork with chatbot help. How Teens Use and View AI, Pew Research Center
  • In 2025, 72% of US teens had used an AI companion at least once. Common Sense Media
  • Practical guidance, seeking information, and writing made up nearly 80% of all ChatGPT conversations in 2025. How People Use ChatGPT, OpenAI
  • Only 4.2% of consumer ChatGPT messages were related to computer programming in 2025. How People Use ChatGPT, OpenAI
  • ChatGPT’s share of global generative AI website visits dropped from 76% in June 2025 to 53% in May 2026. Similarweb

LLM Performance and Cost Statistics

AI Infrastructure and Energy Statistics

  • Global AI computing capacity has grown about 3.3x per year since 2022, doubling every 7 months. Epoch AI
  • OpenAI controlled about 10% to 15% of the world’s operational AI compute at the end of 2025. Epoch AI
  • Data centres used about 485 TWh of electricity in 2025, and that figure is projected to roughly double to 950 TWh by 2030. Key Questions on Energy and AI, IEA
  • Electricity use by AI-focused data centres grew 50% in 2025. Key Questions on Energy and AI, IEA

AI Coding and Developer Statistics

  • 83% of developers used at least one AI tool at work or school in 2026. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026
  • In 2026, 31% of developers who use AI daily spent four or more hours a day with it. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026
  • Claude Code (66%) and GitHub Copilot (59%) were the most-used coding agents among developers in 2026. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026
  • In 2026, 59% of developers said they intentionally avoid AI in some situations, and fear of losing their own skills was the most common reason. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026
  • In 2025, 66% of developers said their biggest frustration with AI tools was “AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite.” Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025
  • By mid-2026, 39% of professional developers worldwide used Claude Code at work, up from 18% in January. Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026, JetBrains
  • OpenAI Codex’s workplace adoption grew from 3% in January 2026 to 16% by mid-2026. Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026, JetBrains
  • 75% of all new code at Google was AI-generated and approved by engineers in April 2026, up from 50% in fall 2025. Google Cloud Next 2026
  • More than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s codebase was written by Claude as of May 2026. Anthropic
  • About 4% of all public GitHub commits were written by Claude Code in February 2026. SemiAnalysis
  • One in three pull requests on GitHub involved an AI agent as of July 2026. Microsoft FY26 Q4 Earnings Call
  • 91% of organizations had two or more AI coding tools in active use in 2026. GitLab
  • In 2026, 85% of software professionals agreed that AI had moved the bottleneck from writing code to reviewing and validating it. GitLab
  • In 2026, 43% of software professionals said they couldn’t reliably tell AI-generated code from human-written code in their own codebase. GitLab
  • TypeScript overtook Python and JavaScript in August 2025 to become the most-used language on GitHub. Octoverse 2025, GitHub
  • More than 1.1 million public GitHub repositories used an LLM SDK in 2025, up 178% year over year. Octoverse 2025, GitHub

Vibe Coding Statistics

  • Collins Dictionary named “vibe coding” its Word of the Year for 2025. Collins Dictionary
  • In Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, a quarter of the startups had 95% of their code written by AI. Garry Tan on X
  • Apps built on Lovable were getting over 900 million visits every month as of August 2026. Lovable
  • As of mid-2026, 80% of people building on Lovable worked in self-identified non-technical roles. A First Look at the Build Economy, Lovable
  • In 2026, 32% of organizations decided against buying at least one software product or feature because they could build it internally with agentic coding tools. The State of AI in 2026, McKinsey

AI-Generated Code Quality and Security Statistics

  • AI-generated code passed security tests only 56% of the time in 2026, virtually unchanged from 2025. GenAI Code Security Report 2026, Veracode
  • Coding-specialized models averaged a 51% security pass rate in 2026, compared with 52% for general-purpose models. GenAI Code Security Report 2026, Veracode
  • On the SusVibes benchmark, 57% of the solutions produced by SWE-Agent with Claude 4 Sonnet worked correctly, but only 11.8% were secure. SusVibes, arXiv
  • In a 2025 analysis, pull requests co-authored by AI had 1.7 times more issues than human-only pull requests (10.83 vs. 6.45 per PR). State of AI vs. Human Code Generation, CodeRabbit
  • In 2026, 96% of developers said they don’t fully trust that AI-generated code is functionally correct, but only 48% said they always check it before committing. Sonar
  • 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets were pushed to public GitHub commits in 2025, a 34% increase year over year. State of Secrets Sprawl 2026, GitGuardian
  • In 2025, commits made with Claude Code leaked secrets at a rate of 3.2%, compared with a 1.5% baseline across all public GitHub commits. State of Secrets Sprawl 2026, GitGuardian
  • In a 2025 scan, 170 of 1,645 Lovable projects (about 10.3%) had row-level security settings that left data exposed across 303 endpoints. Statement on CVE-2025-48757, Matt Palmer
  • In a 2025 test of 20,656 AI-generated web apps, 1,182 used the same hardcoded secret key: “supersecretkey.” Invicti
  • Moltbook, a vibe-coded platform, exposed 1.5 million API authentication tokens and 35,000 email addresses in 2026. Wiz Research

AI Jobs and Workforce Statistics

  • Employment of 22 to 25-year-olds in the most AI-exposed jobs fell about 11% between November 2022 and June 2026, while it grew about 10% in the least-exposed jobs. Canaries in the Coal Mine, Stanford Digital Economy Lab
  • Rising demand for AI skills accounted for about a third of the increase in unemployment among Americans aged 18 to 24 between April 2023 and December 2025. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  • US software development job postings remained about 27.5% below their pre-pandemic level in mid-2026. Indeed Hiring Lab
  • 71% of the increase in US software development job postings between May 2025 and May 2026 came from senior roles. Indeed Hiring Lab
  • Entry-level roles made up just 4.5% of US software development job postings in Q1 2026, compared with 69.3% for senior roles. Indeed Hiring Lab
  • US technology companies announced 165,925 job cuts through September 2026, up 54% from the same period in 2025. Challenger, Gray & Christmas
  • Workers with AI skills earned an average wage premium of 62% in 2026, up from 57% the year before. Global AI Jobs Barometer 2026, PwC
  • Employers expect 39% of workers’ existing skills to be transformed or become outdated by 2030. Future of Jobs Report 2025, World Economic Forum
  • 71% of US adults expect AI to lead to fewer jobs in the US over the next 20 years, up from 64% in 2024. Pew Research Center

AI Trust and Sentiment Statistics

AI Risk and Regulation Statistics