• AI agents popular for programming - but not much else Agent use outside of programming is usually about low-risk tasks that can be undone or corrected. • AI agents are becoming more common in practice, but their use is still heavily focused on programming, according tonew analysis by Anthropicof millions of interactions between humans and AI agents, where researchers studied how tools like Claude Code and public API solutions are used in real-world environments. • According to the report, software development accounts for nearly half of all agent-based activity. • AI agents are primarily used to write, run, and test code, and users are increasingly letting them work autonomously for longer periods of time. • Among the longest sessions, the amount of time the agent worked autonomously almost doubled in three months, from under 25 minutes to over 45 minutes. • At the same time, its use outside of programming is still limited.

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  • Agent use outside of programming is usually about low-risk tasks that can be undone or corrected. Credit: Mohamed Nohassi / Unsplash AI agents are becoming more common in practice, but their use is still heavily focused on programming, according to new analysis by Anthropic of millions of interactions between humans and AI agents, where researchers studied how tools like Claude Code and public API solutions are used in real-world environments. According to the report, software development accounts for nearly half of all agent-based activity. AI agents are primarily used to write, run, and test

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