- Developers are less likely to trust the production generated by AI than last year, according to the report.
- Only 2.5% of experienced developers rely on the production of AI
- AI is excellent to help new developers learn to code
As developers get more customary to AI tools in their workflows, it is increasingly clear that they do not always trust their production, he said new research.
The latest Stack Overflow developer survey has revealed, although the adoption of AI is up to 84% of 76% in 2024, it has also been a great leap in the number of developers who do not trust the results generated by AI, compared to 31% in 2024 to 46% in 2025.
On the other hand, only 3.1%of the results of AI trust a lot, a feeling that is more common among beginners (6.1%) of what is among experienced developers (2.5%).
The developers are not sure about AI, still
Currently, to 78.5% of developers use AI rarely, as monthly, and this is consisting of all levels of experience according to the study.
In spite of the lack of trust, it is clear that developers see artificial intelligence as a useful starting point, with up to three out of five ia tools favorably compared to only one in five that see it unfavorably (and another of every five that are indifferent).
But that is all that is at this time, a starting point. The three quarters admitted that they would still ask a human when they do not trust AI’s responses, with 58% preferring to ask humans when they do not completely understand something and a similar number that seeks human help for ethical and security concerns.
“AI is a powerful tool, but it has significant risks of misinformation or can lack complexity or relevance,” explained Stack Overflow CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar.
Although its use cases in the development cycle can be more limited, artificial intelligence is demonstrating to be useful in other areas: 44% use it to learn to encode (compared to 37% last year), and 36% use it for work or progress.
“By providing a reliable human intelligence layer in the AI era, we believe that today’s technology enthusiasts can play a more important role in adding value to build the technologies and products of tomorrow,” Chandrasekar added.
