Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders..
Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders.
The short version
- The survey received 30,903 responses from developers and technologists across 169 countries.
- Among the 10,926 daily AI users who answered the time-use question, about 80 percent reported using the tools for at least an hour a day.
- The research by developer Q&A site Stack Overflow also found skepticism from developers toward using AI in their roles.
What happened
Only about 7 percent of developers said they trusted AI output for important work decisions, while 48 percent trusted it when they could easily verify the output. Seventy-nine percent considered source attribution important or very important when deciding whether to trust an AI-generated technical answer.
Why it matters
The survey found that coding assistants or coding agents are used by 66 percent of respondents, general-purpose chat tools by 63 percent, and automated agent workflows by 26 percent.
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