Overview

• Adoption rose to 84% of developers using AI tools, up from 76% last year and with daily use exceeding 50% among professionals.
• Only 3.1% of respondents report highly trusting AI-generated code and distrust climbed to 46% from 31% in 2024.
• 66% of developers say AI produces nearly correct solutions and 45% find debugging its code more time-consuming than human-written code.
• Most use AI for searching answers or learning new concepts (87%), though only 17% primarily rely on it for writing code and 29% avoid code generation.
• 75% of developers seek human help when they don’t trust AI answers, while 62% turn to colleagues over ethical or security worries and 58% do so to gain full understanding of generated code.