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Most developers use AI in their daily workflows - but they don't trust it, study finds


Developers, according to the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, are using AI tools more than ever, but, simultaneously, they trust them far less.

A popular blog post by Namanyay Goel, an independent developer, warned: "We're trading deep understanding for quick fixes, and while it feels great in the moment, we're going to pay for this later." Harding warned that if companies continue to measure developer productivity by the simple-minded metric of number of commits or lines of code written, AI-driven technical debt will spiral out of control. " Python, and probably due to the popularity of Python-based generative AI libraries TensorFlow and PyTorch, is especially sought after by developers adopting a new language.

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