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1009: 54% AI-Generated and Climbing — State of AI

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Wes react to the freshly released State of AI 2026 survey, covering everything from skyrocketing AI adoption and the rise of coding agents to the pain points, job security fears, and big philosophical questions developers are wrestling with right now. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:06 Introduction to the State of AI in Web Development 02:47 Survey Insights: AI Coding Adoption and Sentiment 06:55 Models and Providers: Usage and Sentiment Analysis 09:14 Paid Agent Usage: Who’s Paying for What? 11:31 Agents and Assistants. 15:21 Personal Experiences with AI Tools 20:33 Paid Agent Usage 22:36 Programming Languages: Trends in AI Coding 23:54 Image Generation Tools: A Shift in Usage 26:48 The Evolution of Image Generation Tools 28:44 The Future of Video Generation 29:42 AI in App Development 30:54 Code Review Tools 31:27 Brought to you by Sentry.io 34:59 AI’s Role in Code Generation and Review 35:50 The Financial Impact of AI Tools 38:03 Local AI: Trends and Misconceptions 41:28 AI Risks and Pain Points 45:13 User Sentiment Towards AI 48:44 The AI Bubble: Current Perspectives 50:52 Survey Insights and Future Directions Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax. Today, we're talking about the state of web dev AI, the state of AI results.

0:06.5

There was a survey that was just completed about 10 days ago. This is from Sasha Grief. He runs the

0:11.8

state of web dev API, the state of like JavaScript, the state of CSS, you know, all of these

0:17.5

things that we do. And he's been running one for two years called the state of AI. And it's actually kind of interesting because it gives you, I think it gives us a pretty good outlook as to like what are developers feeling. What are they actually using right now? How much of their job are they using it in? And we're going to go through some of the best parts and sort of take a look at like what are people using what what models are they

0:38.2

using how much of the code are they doing all of that good stuff my name is west i'm here with

0:42.6

mr tillinsky how you doing scott hey i'm doing good doing good uh drought conditions in denver

0:49.5

and we're getting a ton of rain right now so i loving, having a great time enjoying the lovely rain.

0:55.9

Have you ever been to Hawaii, Wes? No, no, I have not. You must go. Oh, why you simply must go.

1:03.8

That was my favorite part about Hawaii was just that it rains all the dang time. I love that.

1:08.3

Or at least in Oahu, it does. Yeah, big, big fan of the rain.

1:12.6

Gotta love the rain. And I move to a place that does not rain very often. So, uh, got to love that.

1:17.4

There you go.

1:17.5

There you go.

1:21.4

Real quick, Amsterdam. We are going to be at Amsterdam for a syntax meetup on June 10th.

1:30.4

This is going to be a part of the opening party for JS Nation and React Summit.

1:35.5

These are awesome conferences that are happening on June 11 and June 12th.

1:40.8

And you don't have to get a ticket to these conferences to come to the syntax meetup. You can simply just go to syntax.fm forward slash meetup and grab a free ticket for that. But we highly, highly recommend that you also come to the conferences. Some of the brightest minds in the industry are going to be at this thing. So check it out.jsnation.com React Summit. You can get a combo ticket, use coupon code syntax for

2:02.6

15% off. Again, that's syntax.fm for tickets to syntax meetup. And then also you go to jasnation.com

2:09.6

and ReactSummit.com to grab tickets to the conference. We'll see you there. Peace.

2:14.7

Well, let's talk about rain on some people's parades.

2:17.7

We're going to be talking about the state of AI in web dev.

2:21.0

I know there are some people who are still holding out on the fact that AI coding sucks and that it's never going to be any good.

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