{"id":798189,"date":"2026-10-10T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798189\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:02:16","slug":"stack-overflow-survey-finds-devs-hooked-on-ai-but-not-totally-sold-on-its-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798189\/","title":{"rendered":"Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nearly a third of developers who use AI daily spend four hours or more of their working day with it, according to Stack Overflow’s latest survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The research by developer Q&A site Stack Overflow also found skepticism from developers toward using AI in their roles. 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.<\/p>\n

Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar said developers were highly skeptical as a group. “As AI agents become rapidly more autonomous, that skepticism now acts as a critical safeguard. As agents take on more work, developers need to know where an answer came from, what context informed the information that was produced or a decision that was made, and the most crucial piece \u2013 that they can actually verify its accuracy and relevance. Trust is not a given when it comes to developers; it is earned through transparency, source attribution, and rich technical context.”<\/p>\n

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. Seventeen percent of respondents said they did not use AI tools.<\/p>\n

Stack Overflow’s commercial relationships with AI companies have proved contentious. In early 2024, it introduced OverflowAPI<\/a>, offering paid access to its question-and-answer content and requiring participating AI providers to attribute answers to relevant posts.<\/p>\n

A couple of months later, users began to revolt against its partnership with OpenAI,<\/a> which allowed the LLM builder to train AI models using 15 years of users’ contributions. The Q&A site was also set to benefit from the deal by getting access to OpenAI’s technology. A number of users said they’d rather remove their posts and risk their reputation scores than have their contributions train OpenAI models.<\/p>\n

The survey also found that 52 percent of respondents had learned a new coding skill or programming language this year. AI code-generation tools were among the most common learning resources, behind technical documentation. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"software Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents \u2013 handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}