AI Tools
AI coding tools and protocols, by the numbers.
JetBrains survey: 90% use AI coding agents at work at least weekly
JetBrains surveyed more than 15,000 professional developers from May to July 2026, and 68% use AI coding agents daily.
GitHub Copilot moved to usage-based billing on June 1
"AI Credits" replace premium requests, each plan includes credits equal to its price, and code completions stay free.
Laravel MCP 1.0 ships searchable tool catalogs
With 100 tools, the tool definitions drop from 58,585 bytes to 1,431, which is 97.6% smaller.
The MCP 2026-07-28 spec makes the protocol stateless
With no initialize handshake and no session IDs, MCP servers can sit behind an ordinary load balancer.