I felt the same and why didn’t the authors look over METR’s recent material?
https://metr.org/blog/2026-05-11-ai-usage-survey/
The whole point of the 2025 one is that they found the self-reporting to be significantly inflated, which is why self-reported surveys like this one are hard to trust.
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The whole point of the 2025 one is that they found the self-reporting to be significantly inflated, which is why self-reported surveys like this one are hard to trust.