@FinanceYF5: 1/ Real AI usage of 173 tech company executives revealed. Bessemer surveyed leaders from 113 portfolio companies, breaking it down by function to see who is actually using AI and who is still exploring. The most counterintuitive finding: engineering teams and everyone else are not even on the same starting line.
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Bessemer Venture Partners surveyed 173 executives from 113 companies in its portfolio, revealing that engineering teams far surpass other functions in AI usage, highlighting the uneven state of enterprise AI adoption.
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1/📊 The real AI usage of 173 tech executives has been revealed
Bessemer surveyed leaders from 113 companies in their portfolio, breaking it down by function to see who’s truly using it and who’s still figuring it out.
The most counterintuitive finding: Engineering teams and everyone else aren’t even starting from the same line. 👇 https://t.co/qSMwsS6Vjx
2/ Claude swept first place across six functions
73% of respondents use Anthropic’s Claude, and among engineering teams that number is 77% (Cursor at 50%).
ChatGPT at 43% and Gemini at 37% follow closely, but no one can beat Claude.
3/ 90% of engineering teams now treat AI as core
Engineers now have AI involved in 57% of their code; 92% use coding assistants, 79% use AI for code review.
In contrast, only 24% of finance teams are actively deploying AI, and only 13% of marketing teams treat AI as core to operations.
4/ It’s not that non-tech teams lack conviction — the barriers are completely different
Engineering is stuck on code quality and review bottlenecks (52%); finance is stuck on data quality and system fragmentation (56%).
HR’s top concern is “Is it safe to use?” — data privacy and compliance (41%) — not whether it works well.
5/ Efficiency gains are already rewriting hiring plans
49% of teams say they deliver more without adding headcount; 13% have slowed or paused hiring.
25% have reassigned people to AI-related roles, 10% have created new AI workflow positions, and 6% of roles have been directly filled by tools.
6/ No one has the standard answer — and that itself is the conclusion
86% of leaders believe AI will significantly change their teams in the next 12 months, but 43% are still experimenting or just getting started.
Big changes are happening, but there’s no ready-made playbook — you’re not falling behind, everyone is building the plane while flying it.
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Shift to Fable 5 for hardcore tasks, Sonnet for daily work, and Opus for deep thinking — one lever to rule them all, no menu diving.
What’s even more interesting: this tool itself was built using Claude.
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