A recent survey of over 1,750 tech professionals reveals that AI is exceeding expectations for more than half of users, with significant time savings—especially among founders and product managers. While AI improves work quality for 70%, nearly all report downsides, highlighting concerns around reliability and integration. Engineers favor specialized coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code, whereas PMs and founders rely on generalist models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Designers see moderate benefits, primarily in research and ideation, but not in visual creation. Despite high adoption, agentic platforms remain fragmented, and full potential awaits better collaboration workflows. The gap between current use and desired capabilities points to major opportunities in debugging, documentation, strategic planning, and interaction design.