[SlinkyOnStairs]

> 75% of people answering said they're using it daily and considered it an essential tool they need to work

> (The target demographic was middle management, product owners etc)

This leaves a fairly wide set of options for what "essential" entails.

Do 75% of middle management and product owners actually need AI for their job? Seems unlikely.

Do 75% of middle management and product owners use AI to slop up emails, meeting "summaries", and reports? That's quite possible. Would they declare it to be an "essential tool"? One imagines they are not too fond of actually doing meaningful work.

It's quite easy to get high percentages like this when the AI is involved in make-work and the costs are low if not zero. The moment inference costs go up, most of this usage will evaporate.