AI Coding Adoption Hits 97% but Governance Lags Behind

A March 2026 Black Duck/UserEvidence survey of 831 developers finds 97% use AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot 83%, Claude Code 63%). While teams report average productivity gains and eight hours saved weekly, only 30% have full governance over AI use; common downstream frictions include manual code review and security testing, and many respondents express concern about AI-introduced security defects and call for policies, automated tracking, and human-in-the-loop validation.