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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025: AI

Industry Survey2025Stack Overflow

What was examined?

A large international developer survey covering AI-tool adoption, attitudes and reported development behaviour.

49,009 retained survey responses from 177 countries overall. Specific AI questions used different response bases.

Key findings

  1. 184% of respondents to the relevant question said they were using or planning to use AI tools in development.
  2. 233% trusted AI-output accuracy.
  3. 346% distrusted AI-output accuracy.
  4. 4Reported adoption can therefore be high at the same time as reported confidence remains cautious.

Why it matters. Lornets interpretation.

High adoption does not imply high confidence in generated output. Verification can remain commercially and technically relevant even when AI-assisted development becomes routine.

This is the Lornets reading of the source, not a finding of the source itself.

What it does not establish

  1. 1The survey is voluntary.
  2. 2Recruitment occurred primarily through Stack Overflow channels.
  3. 3AI adoption and trust figures come from different survey questions and response bases.
  4. 4The results measure attitudes and reported behaviour, not independently audited production outcomes.

Source

Organisation
Stack Overflow
Evidence type
Industry Survey
Published
2025
Status
Current

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Relevant Lornets framework areas

Framework domains

  • Delivery & Change Control

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