How tech workers are feeling in 2026 · eight charts

Data: Lenny's Newsletter annual tech worker sentiment survey (Jul 2026). Every chart is a gallery template with only its DATA swapped — one unit is always one real person or one real answer. Scroll to draw; click any chart to replay.

What AI did to a hundred identities

one hairline = one person in a hundred · each thread joins the identity they chose · rounding ate 2 people

TYPE COLONNADE · AI IDENTITY, 5 NUMBERS

Love the work, worn out, losing faith

one tick = one person in a hundred · same respondents, three different questions

BALLOT TALLY · ENJOYMENT / BURNOUT / OPTIMISM, 3 NUMBERS

How worried is the room

one face = one person in a hundred · the mouth is the data · dark ink piles up where worry does

HUNDRED FACES · LAYOFF WORRY, 5 NUMBERS

What they fear, tick by tick

one tick = one person in a hundred who picked it · they could pick several · sorted by dread

TICK ROWS · WORKPLACE FEARS, 4 NUMBERS

Ambivalence, layer by layer

one tick = one person in a hundred · everyone, then both-feelings, then the openly conflicted

HOURGLASS STREAM · FEELINGS ABOUT AI, 3 NUMBERS

Who would still recommend it

each rank sits between NEVER and GLADLY · the pale ribbon slides left as you climb down

BRAND SPECTRUM · NPS BY SENIORITY, 3 NUMBERS

A hundred answers, five ways to say it

every rim node = one answer · threads bundle into the theme it landed in · chaos pulls hardest

RADIAL CONVERGENCE · "THE INDUSTRY IN A SENTENCE", 5 THEMES

Is AI actually making them better?

one tick = one person in a hundred · inked = better at their job because of AI · the right dial lives inside the left

BALLOT RINGS · AI PRODUCTIVITY, 2 NUMBERS