... their GTM motion, and how they approach AI. Many things have changed between 2025 and 2026. See full report here My key takeaways: 78% of founders are technical. @Claude Code became the most-named must-have dev tool (31%). @VS Code held flat (22%). @Cursor dropped to 15%. @v0 by Vercel , @bolt.new , and @Windsurf each lost 6-9%. @Claude by Anthropic models are the most used. AI-generated code is the median experience. 62% of startups have more than half ... ... Conferences emptied out. Technical complexity is no longer the main challenge. AI ate the hard parts of shipping. What replaced it: burn out, AI-competition fear, runway anxiety. 56% of founders remain optimistic about the future. Anything else that struck