Increasingly builders are adopting AI, however the belief they’ve in its outputs is getting worse and worse through the years.
That is in accordance with Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey, which gathered responses from 49,000 builders throughout 177 nations.
This 12 months, 84% of respondents say they’re utilizing or plan to make use of AI instruments for improvement (up from 76% final 12 months), however 46% say they don’t belief the output of these AI instruments (up from 31% final 12 months).
Extra particularly, 75.3% mentioned they don’t belief AI-generated solutions, 61.7% had moral or safety considerations about AI-generated code, and 61.3% mentioned they need to have the ability to absolutely perceive their code.
“The rising lack of belief in AI instruments stood out to us as the important thing information level on this 12 months’s survey, particularly given the elevated tempo of progress and adoption of those AI instruments. AI is a robust instrument, however it has vital dangers of misinformation or can lack complexity or relevance,” mentioned Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow.
The survey discovered that for 45% of respondents, debugging AI-generation code is time consuming, which is likely one of the key frustrations with coping with AI-generated code.
Stack Overflow additionally discovered that solely 31% of respondents are at the moment utilizing AI brokers, and of these, 69% mentioned they’ve seen a rise in productiveness. Seventeen % are planning to make use of them sooner or later, whereas 38% don’t plan to ever use them.
Moreover, 64% of builders don’t understand AI as a menace to their jobs, a slight lower from final 12 months (68%).
The report additionally discovered that 69% of builders have frolicked studying new coding strategies or languages up to now 12 months, and 44% used AI instruments for studying (up from 37%) final 12 months.
Lastly, whereas builders are utilizing AI to help with their work, a majority (77%) aren’t partaking in vibe coding for his or her skilled work.
Different fascinating findings from the survey are:
- 24% of builders are joyful at their present job—a slight improve from final 12 months’s 20%, probably associated to pay raises
- 32% of builders work remotely and 45% of US builders work remotely
- GitHub surpassed Jira as probably the most fascinating collaboration instrument
For extra insights, the complete survey findings can be found right here.
