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40,700 | 40,701 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Not employed | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week) | 12 | Yes, I am new to coding or currently a student | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Coding Bootcamp | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Coding Bootcamp | 15 | Developer, full-stack | 100 to 499 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Reliability and low latency
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | Autonomy and trust to manage your own tasks
NA | Yes | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | 7 | 5 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 160,000 | Yes | HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Python;SQL;TypeScript;Visual Basic (.Net) | Go;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Python;Ruby;Rust;SQL;TypeScript | HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Python;SQL;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Cloud Firestore;Dynamodb;MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Redis;Amazon Redshift | BigQuery;Dynamodb;MongoDB;MySQL;Oracle;PostgreSQL;Amazon Redshift | Dynamodb;MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Amazon Redshift | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cloudflare;Google Cloud;Heroku;Kubernetes;pnpm;Supabase;Vercel;Vite;Yarn | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cloudflare;Digital Ocean;Google Cloud;Heroku;Kubernetes;MSBuild;Ninja;Terraform;Vercel;Vite;Yarn | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cloudflare;Google Cloud;Heroku;Kubernetes;Vercel;Vite;Yarn | NA
NA | Yes | Angular;AngularJS;Django;Express;Next.js;Node.js;Nuxt.js;React;Spring Boot | FastAPI;Fastify;Next.js;Node.js;Nuxt.js;React;WordPress | Next.js;Node.js;Nuxt.js;React | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;Claude Code;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++;PyCharm;Visual Studio Code | Android Studio;Claude Code;Neovim;Rider;Visual Studio Code | Android Studio;Claude Code;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4;Large Language Model | RAG;Google Gemini;visionOS | null | null | null | Windows;MacOS;Ubuntu;Android;iOS | Windows;MacOS;Ubuntu;Android;iOS | Confluence;GitHub;Google Workspace;Jira;Markdown File;Notion | Clickup;GitLab;Miro;Stack Overflow for Teams | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Discord;Dev.to;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Discord;Dev.to;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;Discord;Dev.to;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);LinkedIn | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);Meta Llama (all models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | Amazon Titan models;DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Microsoft Phi-4 models;Mistral AI models;Reka (Flash 3 or other Reka models) | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 1 and 3 years | A few times per month or weekly | Chat (people);Long-form articles;Videos;Coding challenges;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Direct messaging of users;Job board;Chat (bot/AI) | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
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40,701 | 40,702 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 8 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Blogs or podcasts | 11 | Developer, full-stack | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | People manager | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a tool that more than five colleagues use but it is not a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Good brand and public image
NA | Inefficient or time-costly
NA | Energy | Job stability and career growth with a single employer
NA | No | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 6 | 4 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 110,000 | Yes | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;SQL;TypeScript | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;SQL;TypeScript | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;SQL;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft SQL Server;SQLite | Cosmos DB;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite | Microsoft SQL Server;SQLite | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;npm;NuGet;Vite | Microsoft Azure;NuGet;pnpm;Podman;Vite | Microsoft Azure;NuGet;Vite | NA
NA | Yes | ASP.NET Core;jQuery;Svelte | ASP.NET Core;Svelte | ASP.NET Core;Svelte | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Shadcn/ui | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher | null | null | Windows;MacOS;Android;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Windows;Android;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Azure Devops;GitHub;Notion;Trello | GitHub | GitHub | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models);X Grok models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;X Grok models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;X Grok models | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
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40,702 | 40,703 | I am learning to code | 18-24 years old | Secondary school (e.g. American high school, German Realschule or Gymnasium, etc.) | Student | None of the above | null | Yes, I am new to coding or currently a student | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);School (i.e., University, College, etc) | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training;School (i.e., University, College, etc) | 8 | Student | null | null | null | null | Personal Project | Good brand and public image
NA | Availability of better alternatives
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NA | Yes | MongoDB | MariaDB;MongoDB | MongoDB | NA
NA | Yes | Maven (build tool);npm;NuGet;Pacman | npm;NuGet;Pacman | npm;NuGet;Pacman | NA
NA | Yes | Express;Node.js;React | ASP.NET Core;Blazor;Express;Node.js;React | Express;Node.js;React | NA
NA | Yes | Claude Code;IntelliJ IDEA;Visual Studio Code | Claude Code;Visual Studio Code | Claude Code;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher | null | null | Windows;Arch | Arch | GitHub;Markdown File | GitHub;Markdown File | GitHub;Markdown File | NA
NA | Discord;Reddit;X;YouTube | Reddit;X | Reddit;X | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Between 3 and 5 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Coding challenges;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Chat (bot/AI) | Browse content related to Q&A posts I recently viewed
NA | Neutral | Rarely, almost never | No, but I plan to soon | Favorable | Somewhat distrust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | Testing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Committing and reviewing code;Generating content or synthetic data | Search for answers | Project planning | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I don’t use AI tools regularly;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | Still not that much. | No, but I plan to | Yes, somewhat | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;I don’t think I’ll need help from people anymore | Problem solving, logical thinking. | null | null |
40,703 | 40,704 | I am a developer by profession | 18-24 years old | Secondary school (e.g. American high school, German Realschule or Gymnasium, etc.) | Employed | null | 6 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 6 | Developer, back-end | 100 to 499 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Availability of better alternatives
NA | Fintech | Recognition from peers for your work
NA | I'm not sure | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | 9 | null | Turkey | TRY Turkish lira | 64,000 | Yes | Go;JavaScript;Python;SQL | Go;JavaScript;Python;SQL | Go;JavaScript;Python;SQL | Shell
NA | Yes | PostgreSQL;Redis | Elasticsearch;MongoDB;PostgreSQL;Redis | PostgreSQL;Redis | RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ | Yes | Chocolatey;Cloudflare;Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Make;Pip;Poetry | Cloudflare;Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Make;Pip;Poetry | Cloudflare;Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Make;Pip;Poetry | NA
NA | Yes | Django;Flask | Django;Flask | Django;Flask | NA
NA | Yes | PyCharm;Vim;WebStorm;Windsurf | PyCharm;Vim;WebStorm;Windsurf | PyCharm;Vim;WebStorm;Windsurf | NA
NA | Pydantic;Shadcn/ui | Pydantic;Shadcn/ui | Pydantic;Shadcn/ui | null | null | MacOS;iOS | Windows;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);iOS | GitHub;GitLab;Google Workspace;Obsidian | GitHub;GitLab;Google Workspace;Obsidian | GitHub;GitLab;Google Workspace;Obsidian | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models;Perplexity Sonar models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models;Perplexity Sonar models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models;Perplexity Sonar models | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 5 and 10 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | null | Upvote/Downvote Q&A posts
NA | Neutral | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Highly distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Search for answers | Debugging or fixing code;Deployment and monitoring | Committing and reviewing code;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | Learning about a codebase;Testing code;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | I review each and every line of code the LLM produce, just like how I would review code from my peers. So no, I'm not vibe coding per se. | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | null | 1,616 | 8 |
40,704 | 40,705 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 28 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Colleague or on-the-job training | 20 | Engineering manager | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | People manager | Your choice (very flexible, you can come in when you want or just as needed) | No | Work | Easy-to-use API
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Media & Advertising Services | null | No | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | null | null | United States of America | USD United States dollar | null | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Python;SQL;TypeScript | Python;SQL | Python;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | Elasticsearch;PostgreSQL;Redis;Amazon Redshift | PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Terraform | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | NA
NA | Yes | Django;FastAPI;jQuery;React | React | React | NA
NA | Yes | IntelliJ IDEA;Visual Studio Code | Claude Code;Cursor;Eclipse;IntelliJ IDEA;Visual Studio Code | IntelliJ IDEA;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;MacOS;iOS;iPadOS | MacOS;Ubuntu | Confluence;GitHub;Google Workspace;Jira;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File | Confluence;GitHub;Google Workspace;Jira;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Trello | Confluence;GitHub;Google Workspace;Jira;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File | NA
NA | Reddit;Bluesky;X;YouTube | Reddit;Slack (public channels, not work);YouTube | Reddit;YouTube | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | null | No, not really | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, but I plan to soon | Favorable | Somewhat distrust | Neither good or bad at handling complex tasks | null | null | null | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | null | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 7 |
40,705 | 40,706 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 15 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts | 18 | Architect, software or solutions | 100 to 499 employees | Individual contributor | Your choice (very flexible, you can come in when you want or just as needed) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a tool that more than five colleagues use but it is not a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Good brand and public image
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Manufacturing | null | No | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | 9 | 2 | Finland | EUR European Euro | 90,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Python;R;SQL;TypeScript | HTML/CSS;TypeScript | HTML/CSS;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Dynamodb;MongoDB;Neo4J;PostgreSQL;SQLite | Databricks SQL;Dynamodb | Dynamodb | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Datadog;Docker;Firebase;Google Cloud;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Microsoft Azure;New Relic;npm;Pip;pnpm;Podman;Terraform;Vite;Webpack;Yarn | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Microsoft Azure;pnpm;Terraform | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Microsoft Azure;pnpm;Terraform | NA
NA | Yes | Express;Next.js;Node.js;React | Next.js;Node.js;React | Next.js;Node.js;React | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio Code;Xcode | Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | Tailwind CSS 4;uv | Tailwind CSS 4 | Tailwind CSS 4 | null | null | MacOS;iOS | MacOS;iOS;Red Hat | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Jira;Linear;Markdown File;Miro | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Markdown File;Miro | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Markdown File;Miro | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | NA
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models | NA
NA | Yes | Daily or almost daily | Between 5 and 10 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Coding challenges;Logic games/puzzles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.) | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Somewhat distrust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Deployment and monitoring;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | Learning about a codebase;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | Testing code | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | No | Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks. | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ChatGPT;GitHub Copilot;Microsoft Copilot | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I have ethical or security concerns about code | null | 104,413 | 9 |
40,706 | 40,707 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 10 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification) | 13 | Developer, full-stack | 10,000 or more employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | No | null | null | null | Software Development | Solving real-world problems
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 2 | 2 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 350,000 | Yes | Kotlin;PHP;TypeScript | Rust;TypeScript | TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | MySQL | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | React | React | React | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;MacOS;iOS | MacOS;iOS | GitHub;GitLab | GitHub;GitLab | GitHub;GitLab | NA
NA | Reddit;YouTube | Reddit;YouTube | Reddit;YouTube | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Long-form articles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts;Chat (bot/AI) | null | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Indifferent | Neither trust nor distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Deployment and monitoring | Project planning;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics | Documenting code;Testing code;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | Partially. We have an internal LLM that we sometimes use in this fashion, though it's often pretty bad at getting anything meaningful done and is slow. | Yes, I use AI agents at work weekly | Not at all or minimally | Software engineering | Agent/multi-agent orchestration | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | Internal only | null | Internal only | null | Internal only | null | Internal only | When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Empathy, problem solving, debugging, and communication. | 350,000 | 8 |
40,707 | 40,708 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 65 years or older | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Retired | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Volunteering (regularly) | 8 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 8 | Retired | null | null | null | null | null | Easy-to-use API
NA | Lack of or sub-par API
NA | null | null | null | null | null | 3 | France | EUR European Euro | null | Yes | HTML/CSS;JavaScript | HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell | HTML/CSS;JavaScript | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft Access | Firebase Realtime Database | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Google Gemini | Google Gemini | Google Gemini | null | null | Windows;Android;Debian;ChromeOS | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Less than one year | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | null | Bookmark posts to look at later
NA | Not sure | null | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Indifferent | Somewhat distrust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Documenting code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Search for answers | null | null | I don’t use AI tools regularly | null | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | null | null | null |
40,708 | 40,709 | I am a developer by profession | 18-24 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Student | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week);Attending school (part-time) | 3 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Games or coding challenges | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Games or coding challenges | 8 | Developer, full-stack | 5,000 to 9,999 employees | Individual contributor | In-person | No | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | Expert mentors
NA | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 3 | 3 | France | EUR European Euro | 18,000 | Yes | C#;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;PowerShell;Python;SQL;TypeScript | C#;C++;HTML/CSS | C#;HTML/CSS | NA
NA | Yes | Cosmos DB;Microsoft SQL Server;MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Chocolatey;Docker;Kubernetes;Maven (build tool);Microsoft Azure;npm;NuGet;Pip;pnpm;Splunk | Gradle;Kubernetes;Microsoft Azure | Kubernetes;Microsoft Azure | NA
NA | Yes | Angular;Express;jQuery;Node.js;React;Spring Boot | React;Spring Boot | React;Spring Boot | NA
NA | Yes | IntelliJ IDEA;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | IntelliJ IDEA;Visual Studio | IntelliJ IDEA;Visual Studio | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows | Windows | GitHub;GitLab;Jira;Trello | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Trello | GitHub;GitLab;Trello | Codeck
Codeck | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky;X;YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky;X;YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky;X;YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | NA
NA | Yes | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);Mistral AI models;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 1 and 3 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Chat (people);Long-form articles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not at all | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Neither trust nor distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Documenting code;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | Project planning;Deployment and monitoring | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics | Debugging or fixing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving | It's part of my workflow to learn new languages or library | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Not at all or minimally | Software engineering | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Capacity to imagine solution, to create new architecture and new ways to solve problems | 20,883 | 2 |
40,709 | 40,710 | I am learning to code | 18-24 years old | Secondary school (e.g. American high school, German Realschule or Gymnasium, etc.) | Student | Attending school (full-time) | null | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);School (i.e., University, College, etc) | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 3 | Student | null | null | null | null | Personal Project | Costs are manageable
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | null | null | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 0 | 2 | Canada | CAD Canadian dollar | 30,000 | Yes | C#;HTML/CSS;Java;Python;SQL | C#;C++;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;R;Rust;SQL;TypeScript | C#;HTML/CSS;Python;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | SQLite | MySQL;PostgreSQL;SQLite | SQLite | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Django;Flask | Django;Node.js;React | Django | NA
NA | Yes | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;PyCharm;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;PyCharm;Visual Studio Code | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;PyCharm;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher | null | null | null | null | Windows | MacOS | GitHub | GitHub | GitHub | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;YouTube | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Stack Overflow;Reddit;YouTube | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | A few times per week | Between 1 and 3 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Long-form articles;Coding challenges;Logic games/puzzles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Neutral | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, but I plan to soon | Unfavorable | Neither trust nor distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | Documenting code;Creating or maintaining documentation | Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | I don’t use AI tools regularly | No | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions | Optimization, testing, reading | 21,888 | null |
40,710 | 40,711 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Engaged in paid work (10-19 hours per week) | 28 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 33 | Developer, full-stack | Less than 20 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | Autonomy and trust to manage your own tasks
NA | I'm not sure | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 9 | null | Germany | EUR European Euro | 44,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;Python | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;Python | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;Python | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;MySQL | MariaDB;MySQL | MariaDB;MySQL | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | jQuery | jQuery | jQuery | Laminas
Laminas | null | Eclipse;Sublime Text | Eclipse;Sublime Text | Eclipse;Sublime Text | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows | Windows | Trello | Trello | Trello | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Chat (people);Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.) | null | No, not at all | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, and I don't plan to | Very unfavorable | Highly distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Documenting code;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | Hell no. | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | You'll still have to know if AI is creating slop or not. | 51,046 | 7 |
40,711 | 40,712 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 19 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Blogs or podcasts;Games or coding challenges | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Blogs or podcasts | 30 | Architect, software or solutions | 100 to 499 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Software Development | Competitive pay and benefits
NA | No | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 5 | 2 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 180,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;GDScript;Go;Groovy;JavaScript;Kotlin;Lua;PowerShell;Python;SQL;TypeScript | R;Rust;Zig | null | Terraform
Smalltalk | Yes | InfluxDB;MariaDB;MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite;Cockroachdb | Cassandra;DuckDB;Neo4J;Valkey | null | Kafka
ScyllaDB, SpacetimeDB | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Chocolatey;Digital Ocean;Docker;Gradle;Heroku;Kubernetes;Maven (build tool);Microsoft Azure;Netlify;Ninja;npm;NuGet;Pip;Podman;Poetry;Prometheus;Terraform;Vite | Datadog | null | Helm, ArgoCD, vcpkg, Github Actions
NA | Yes | Django;Express;FastAPI;React;Vue.js | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;Claude Code;Cursor;IntelliJ IDEA;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;PyCharm;Rider;Vim;WebStorm | null | null | NA
NA | Pydantic | null | null | null | null | Windows;Ubuntu;Android;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);Linux (non-WSL);Arch;Fedora | Windows;Ubuntu;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);Linux (non-WSL);Red Hat | Doxygen;GitHub;Jira;Trello;YouTrack | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet | null | null | Copilot
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Neutral | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Documenting code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Debugging or fixing code;Deployment and monitoring;Learning new concepts or technologies | Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics | Generating content or synthetic data | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | I've only been willing to use "vibe coding" for personal projects. In order to vibe code correctly you need to be able to change your requirements to match the capabilities of the AI platform. When writing code professionally for others you usually don't have this luxury. Nothing is more frustrating than vibe coding *into* a corner that the AI is clearly bad at handling. | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering;Data and analytics | Multi-platform search enablement | AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | null | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code | I think that there will be a strong push to write APIs and documentation that AIs are able to ingest correctly. My expectation is that the test for new APIs will basically be to ask a bunch of beginner, stack overflow style questions of an AI against your API. If the results are very bad then it's likely that your API needs to change, not that the AI bots are bad.
I think this is the right place for AIs because its one of the few places where hallucination can be helpful. If you ask an AI to use your API, and it generates code that *doesn't* work but you think *should* work then now you know how to improve your API.
I think the sort of skills you develop in the open-source world will still be valuable. In open-source you spend more time reading code to understand it. You spend more time debugging things you've never seen before. There are a lot of extremely solved problems that AI is going to wipe out, but there are a bunch of best practices and debugging that'll still be important to be able to do.
I have an advantage in this AI world because I like reading code too. This is ultimately why I did well in the free software world. People that don't have this skill, or hate reading other people's code, are likely to be screwed by the changes that AI brings to the table. | 180,000 | 10 |
40,712 | 40,713 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Volunteering (regularly) | 5 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
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40,713 | 40,714 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 65 years or older | Professional degree (JD, MD, Ph.D, Ed.D, etc.) | Retired | Engaged in paid work (less than 10 hours per week) | 40 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community) | 35 | Applied scientist | 10,000 or more employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Personal Project | Easy-to-use API
NA | Lack of or sub-par API
NA | Government | null | null | null | null | 3 | Germany | EUR European Euro | null | Yes | Fortran;Python;SQL | Rust | null | Julia
NA | Yes | Elasticsearch;PostgreSQL | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Flask | null | null | NA
NA | null | Visual Studio Code | null | null | NA
NA | Ollama | c++23 | null | null | null | Ubuntu | null | GitLab;Obsidian | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once per month or monthly | Between 1 and 3 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | null | Upvote/Downvote Q&A posts
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Indifferent | Neither trust nor distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | null | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Not at all or minimally | null | null | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Problem analysis. | null | null |
40,714 | 40,715 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week);Attending school (part-time) | 10 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Blogs or podcasts | 18 | Other (please specify): | 500 to 999 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Work | Connected to an open-source project
NA | Ethical concerns
NA | Government | Developing specialized expertise
NA | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 5 | 7 | Germany | EUR European Euro | 50,000 | Yes | Assembly;Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;F#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;Rust;SQL | Elixir;Rust;Scala;Zig | Rust | NA
NA | Yes | Elasticsearch;Microsoft SQL Server;Oracle;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite | BigQuery;Cassandra;Cosmos DB;Elasticsearch;PostgreSQL;Valkey | Elasticsearch;PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | Docker;Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;Netlify;NuGet;Pip;pnpm;Podman;Prometheus;Vercel;Vite;Webpack | Bun;Cargo;Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;NuGet;Podman;Prometheus;Splunk;Supabase | Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;NuGet;Podman;Prometheus | NA
NA | Yes | Angular;ASP.NET Core;Blazor;jQuery;Next.js;Node.js;React;WordPress | Angular;ASP.NET Core;Blazor;jQuery;Phoenix | Angular;ASP.NET Core;Blazor;jQuery | NA
NA | Yes | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Vim;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Claude Code;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Vim;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Vim;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Ollama | .NET 8 or higher;Ollama | .NET 8 or higher;Ollama | OrchardCore | OrchardCore | Windows;Ubuntu;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);Debian;Linux (non-WSL) | Windows;Ubuntu;Linux (non-WSL);Pop!_OS | Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Jira;Markdown File | GitHub;Markdown File | GitHub;Markdown File | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Discord;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Company-sponsored forums | Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Company-sponsored forums | Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Company-sponsored forums | NA
NA | Yes | openAI Reasoning models | Alibaba Cloud Qwen models;Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Gemini (Pro Reasoning models) | null | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once per month or monthly | Between 10 and 15 years | A few times per month or weekly | Chat (bot/AI) | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Neither trust nor distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | Learning new concepts or technologies | Deployment and monitoring;Generating content or synthetic data | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Search for answers | Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | No | Yes, I use AI agents at work monthly or infrequently | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering;Customer service support | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | null | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | GitHub MCP Server | null | Ollama | null | Grafana + Prometheus | null | ChatGPT;Claude Code;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini;Microsoft Copilot | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | memory management | 58,007 | 8 |
40,715 | 40,716 | I am a developer by profession | 18-24 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Attending school (part-time) | 5 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 9 | Developer, front-end | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a tool that more than five colleagues use but it is not a substantial addition to the tech stack | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
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40,716 | 40,717 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Volunteering (regularly) | 4 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 15 | Developer, game or graphics | 10,000 or more employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was ultimately not purchased or used at my organization | Personal Project | Costs are manageable
NA | Prohibitive pricing
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40,717 | 40,718 | I work with developers or my work supports developers but am not a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Employed | None of the above | 27 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts | 40 | Engineering manager | 10,000 or more employees | People manager | Your choice (very flexible, you can come in when you want or just as needed) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Connected to an open-source project
NA | Ethical concerns
NA | Software Development | null | No | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | 50 | 10 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 300,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;Dart;Go;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;MicroPython;Python;Ruby;Rust | HTML/CSS;MicroPython;Rust | HTML/CSS;MicroPython;Rust | NA
NA | Yes | PostgreSQL;SQLite | SQLite | SQLite | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Ansible;Cargo;Digital Ocean;Docker;Kubernetes;Make;Podman | Ansible;Cargo;Digital Ocean;Podman | Ansible;Cargo;Digital Ocean;Podman | dnf
dnf | Yes | Axum | null | null | Dioxus
Dioxus | Yes | Claude Code;Cursor;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Nano;Vim;Visual Studio Code | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;VSCodium | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab | NA
NA | Large Language Model;RAG;Google Gemini;Ollama | null | null | bootc | bootc | Fedora | Fedora | GitHub;GitLab;Jira;Miro;Wikis | null | null | Codeberg, Forgejo
Codeberg, Forgejo | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky;YouTube;Company-sponsored forums | Bluesky | Bluesky | Discourse
Discourse | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);Meta Llama (all models);Mistral AI models;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Less than once per month or monthly | Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.) | Other (write in):
Find existing answers to my question | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Very unfavorable | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | null | Writing code;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | Project planning;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation | Learning about a codebase;Predictive analytics | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;Other (write in):;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | I've tried it, and it's just _less fun_ than actually coding. | Yes, I use AI agents at work weekly | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering;Business process automation;IT operations;Data and analytics | Language processing;MCP servers;Integration with external agents and APIs | null | AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | null | Write in the most significant benefit if not listed above. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | null | null | IBM watsonx.ai;Ollama;Zapier | null | null | null | Claude Code;Google Gemini | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Architecture and planning | 300,000 | null |
40,718 | 40,719 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 10 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Colleague or on-the-job training | 12 | Developer, front-end | 5,000 to 9,999 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | No | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
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40,719 | 40,720 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 65 years or older | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Attending school (part-time) | 20 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);School (i.e., University, College, etc) | 10 | System administrator | 100 to 499 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | No | School | Reputation for quality
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Retail and Consumer Services | null | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 8 | 6 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 100,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;SQL | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Google Cloud;Yarn | null | null | NA
NA | null | Drupal;WordPress | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | IntelliJ IDEA;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;PyCharm;Sublime Text;Visual Studio | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS | null | Jira | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Meta Llama (all models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | null | null | NA
NA | No | Less than once per month or monthly | Between 3 and 5 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | null | null | null | null | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Somewhat trust | Very well at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | null | null | null | I haven’t encountered any problems | yes | Yes, I use AI agents at work monthly or infrequently | Yes, somewhat | Other Industry purpose (write in): | Vector databases for AI applications;Integration with external agents and APIs | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | IBM watsonx.ai;Llama Index;LangChain | null | null | null | ChatGPT;Claude Code;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini;Microsoft Copilot;Replit;Perplexity | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code | Still need to know how to code. | 100,000 | null |
40,720 | 40,721 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Transitioning to retirement (gradually reducing work hours);Engaged in paid work (less than 10 hours per week) | 15 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | 39 | Developer, desktop or enterprise applications | Less than 20 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Reliability and low latency
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | Innovation through solving challenging and complex problems
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 5 | 5 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | null | Yes | C#;C++ | C#;C++ | C#;C++ | NA
NA | Yes | null | null | null | Custom databases
Custom databases | Yes | Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Azure | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio | Visual Studio | Visual Studio | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;c++23 | .NET 8 or higher;c++23 | .NET 8 or higher;c++23 | null | null | Windows | Windows | GitHub | GitHub | GitHub | NA
NA | YouTube;LinkedIn | YouTube;LinkedIn | YouTube;LinkedIn | NA
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | NA
NA | Yes | Infrequently, less than once per year | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Infrequently, less than once per year | Job board | null | No, not at all | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Neither trust nor distrust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | null | Writing code;Testing code;Deployment and monitoring | null | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | No | No, and I don't plan to | Yes, somewhat | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I don’t think I’ll need help from people anymore | Architecture | null | 7 |
40,721 | 40,722 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Volunteering (regularly) | 13 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | 19 | Developer, full-stack | Less than 20 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Work | Connected to an open-source project
NA | Lack of or sub-par API
NA | Software Development | Solving real-world problems
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 11 | 4 | Germany | EUR European Euro | 56,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;SQL;TypeScript;Mojo | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;MySQL;Redis;SQLite | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cargo;Composer;Docker;Homebrew;npm;Vite;Yarn | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Laravel;React;Vue.js | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio Code | null | null | NA
NA | Tailwind CSS 4;Shadcn/ui | null | null | null | null | MacOS;iOS | MacOS | GitHub;Notion | null | null | NA
NA | Discord;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Mistral AI models;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once per month or monthly | Between 10 and 15 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | null | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Indifferent | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Generating content or synthetic data | Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | No | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering;Marketing | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | null | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Understanding what the customer really wants and needs | 64,968 | 8 |
40,722 | 40,723 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 3 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Colleague or on-the-job training;Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange | 10 | Developer, front-end | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Government | Job stability and career growth with a single employer
NA | I'm not sure | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 6 | 5 | Canada | CAD Canadian dollar | 85,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;TypeScript | C#;Groovy;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;TypeScript | HTML/CSS;JavaScript;TypeScript | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cloudflare;Microsoft Azure;npm;Pip;Webpack | Chocolatey;Docker;Microsoft Azure;npm;Pip;Webpack | Microsoft Azure;npm;Pip;Webpack | NA
NA | Yes | jQuery;Node.js;Vue.js | jQuery;Next.js;Node.js;React;Spring Boot;Vue.js | jQuery;Node.js;Vue.js | Adobe Experience Manager
NA | Yes | Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | CoPilot
CoPilot | null | null | null | null | null | Android;Linux (non-WSL);Arch;iPadOS;Fedora | Windows;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Azure Devops;Confluence;Jira;Miro;Obsidian | Azure Devops;Confluence;Jira;Miro;Obsidian | Azure Devops;Confluence;Jira;Miro;Obsidian | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Twitch;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Twitch | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Twitch | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet | NA
NA | Yes | Daily or almost daily | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Chat (people);Message Boards;Direct messaging of users;Job board;Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Unfavorable | Highly distrust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Debugging or fixing code;Predictive analytics;Search for answers | Project planning;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Generating content or synthetic data | Writing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | Learning new concepts or technologies | Documenting code | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving | Sometimes, but AI tends to hallucinate a lot so we have to make sure it's still complying with acceptance criteria and debug it. | No, and I don't plan to | No, but my development work has changed somewhat due to non-AI factors | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | The ability to translate requirements from business stakeholders and assessing architecture and feasibility | 62,015 | 6 |
40,723 | 40,724 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | null | 8 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community) | 12 | Engineering manager | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | People manager | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Transportation, or Supply Chain | Competitive pay and benefits
NA | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 12 | 5 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 310,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);Go;HTML/CSS;Java | Dart;Elixir;Erlang;Go;Lua;Rust;Zig;Mojo;Gleam | Go | NA
NA | Yes | PostgreSQL;Redis;Valkey | PostgreSQL;SQLite;Valkey | PostgreSQL;Valkey | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Ansible;APT;Cargo;Datadog;Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Make;Maven (build tool);npm;Pip;Poetry;Prometheus;Splunk;Terraform | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cargo;Docker;Kubernetes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cargo;Docker;Kubernetes | NA
NA | Yes | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | IntelliJ IDEA;Neovim;Visual Studio Code | null | null | Helix
Helix | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS | MacOS | Jira;Obsidian | Obsidian | Obsidian | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);YouTube;Medium;Company-sponsored forums | GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);Medium;Company-sponsored forums | GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);Medium;Company-sponsored forums | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Chat (people);Message Boards;Long-form articles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Job board;Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts;Chat (bot/AI) | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Unfavorable | Highly distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Deployment and monitoring;Generating content or synthetic data | Documenting code;Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Predictive analytics | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I don’t use AI tools regularly | No. | No, and I don't plan to | No, but my development work has changed somewhat due to non-AI factors | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Everything. | 310,000 | 2 |
40,724 | 40,725 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 25 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I didn't spend time learning in the past year | null | 37 | Developer, desktop or enterprise applications | 20 to 99 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | No | Work | Good brand and public image
NA | null | Other: | Solving real-world problems
NA | I'm not sure | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | null | null | Sweden | SEK Swedish krona | 1,200,000 | Yes | C++;Java;Python;Ruby;Rust | Rust;Zig | Rust | NA
NA | Yes | PostgreSQL | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cargo;Chocolatey;Datadog;Docker;Gradle;Homebrew;Make;Microsoft Azure;Ninja;npm;Pip;Podman;Terraform | Cargo | Cargo | NA
NA | Yes | Svelte;Axum | Axum | Axum | NA
NA | Yes | RustRover;Visual Studio Code;Zed | Zed | Zed | NA
NA | Ollama | null | null | null | null | Windows;MacOS;iPadOS | Ubuntu | GitHub;Miro | null | null | NA
NA | GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | null | null | NA
NA | Not sure/can't remember | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | null | Neutral | null | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Indifferent | Neither trust nor distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Project planning;Documenting code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | Generating content or synthetic data | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | yes | Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, to a great extent | Software engineering | null | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | ChatGPT;GitHub Copilot | null | I don’t think I’ll need help from people anymore | complex problems and making code readable and beautiful, maintainable. | 125,786 | 7 |
40,725 | 40,726 | I code primarily as a hobby | 45-54 years old | Professional degree (JD, MD, Ph.D, Ed.D, etc.) | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Volunteering (regularly);Engaged in paid work (less than 10 hours per week) | 3 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts;Other (please specify): | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 5 | Developer, full-stack | Just me - I am a freelancer, sole proprietor, etc. | Individual contributor | Your choice (very flexible, you can come in when you want or just as needed) | No | Personal Project | Robust and complete API
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | null | I'm not sure | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry involuntarily | null | null | Russian Federation | RUB Russian ruble | null | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;SQL;TypeScript | Ada;Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;Go;HTML/CSS;Kotlin;OCaml;Python;Rust;SQL;Swift;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;SQL;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | MongoDB;PostgreSQL | MongoDB;Neo4J;PostgreSQL;Redis;Clickhouse | MongoDB;PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | Docker;Homebrew;Make;npm;Webpack | Docker;Homebrew;Make;npm;Vite;Yarn | Docker;Homebrew;Make;npm | NA
NA | Yes | Express;NestJS;Node.js;React | Angular;Deno;Express;Fastify;NestJS;Next.js;Node.js;React;Svelte;Vue.js;WordPress | Express;NestJS;Node.js;React | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio Code;VSCodium;WebStorm | Android Studio;Vim;Visual Studio Code;VSCodium;WebStorm;Xcode | Visual Studio Code;VSCodium;WebStorm | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS;iOS;iPadOS | MacOS;Ubuntu;iOS;Debian;iPadOS | GitHub;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Miro;Notion | GitHub;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Miro;Obsidian | GitHub;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Miro | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Dev.to;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Dev.to;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Dev.to;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | Habr
Habr | Yes | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);openAI GPT (chatbot models) | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models) | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models) | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 1 and 3 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Long-form articles;Videos | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Indifferent | Somewhat distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I don’t use AI tools regularly;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving | No, I don't feel myself like wasting my power of thinking. AI is quite good for generating boilerplate code in subjects I've got deep under my belt to be able to locate unrealistic stuff like non-existing libs and so on. And its useful to ask about some new fields in order to get a piece of advice and directions "what to google/SO" ;o) | Yes, I use AI agents at work monthly or infrequently | Not at all or minimally | Software engineering | null | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | null | null | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | Ollama;Haystack | null | null | null | ChatGPT | DeepSeek R3 | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Thinking instead of copypasting | null | null |
40,726 | 40,727 | I am a developer by profession | 18-24 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | null | 2 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system) | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
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40,727 | 40,728 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 35-44 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week) | 8 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Blogs or podcasts;Games or coding challenges | 3 | Product manager | 100 to 499 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | Personal Project | Customizable and manageable codebase
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | null | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 6 | 2 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 150,000 | Yes | C++;Go;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;Python;R;SQL;Swift | C;C#;COBOL;Dart;Delphi;Elixir;Erlang;F#;Fortran | null | NA
NA | Yes | BigQuery;Databricks SQL;MongoDB;Snowflake;Cockroachdb | null | null | datadog
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Datadog;Google Cloud;Microsoft Azure;New Relic;Splunk | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Large Language Model;SwiftData;Google Gemini | null | null | null | null | MacOS | MacOS | Asana;Google Workspace;Monday.com | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);YouTube;LinkedIn;Substack;Medium | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 3 and 5 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Chat (people);Message Boards;Long-form articles;Videos;Coding challenges;Logic games/puzzles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.) | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | null | Writing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | Learning about a codebase;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | Project planning;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | null | Yes, I use AI agents at work weekly | Yes, somewhat | Data and analytics;Marketing | null | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | null | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | New Relic | null | ChatGPT;Google Gemini;Microsoft Copilot;AgentGPT;Amazon Codewhisperer | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | null | 150,000 | null |
40,728 | 40,729 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Attending school (part-time) | 37 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Other (please specify): | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Colleague or on-the-job training;Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other (please specify): | 43 | Developer, desktop or enterprise applications | null | null | null | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
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40,729 | 40,730 | I work with developers or my work supports developers but am not a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Volunteering (regularly) | 18 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Blogs or podcasts;Books / Physical media | 25 | Product manager | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | Personal Project | Reputation for quality
NA | Ethical concerns
NA | Internet, Telecomm or Information Services | null | Yes | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 30 | 30 | Canada | CAD Canadian dollar | 170,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);Dart;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;Python;SQL | Go;Kotlin;Lua;Swift | null | NA
NA | Yes | MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;SQLite | Redis | null | NA
NA | Yes | Ansible;Docker;Homebrew;Make;npm;Pip;Supabase | Podman;Prometheus | null | NA
NA | Yes | Django;Express;Flask;Node.js;React | FastAPI | null | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;Visual Studio Code | Cursor | null | NA
NA | Large Language Model;RAG;Ollama | Pydantic;LangGraph | null | null | null | Windows;MacOS;Ubuntu;Android;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);iOS | MacOS | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Trello | null | null | Joplin notes
NA | Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);Meta Llama (all models) | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models) | null | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Videos;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Direct messaging of users;Chat (bot/AI) | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | Yes, somewhat | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Highly trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Debugging or fixing code | null | Documenting code;Testing code;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Creating or maintaining documentation | Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | I don’t use AI tools regularly;I haven’t encountered any problems | Absolutely | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, to a great extent | Business process automation;Decision intelligence;Customer service support | Vector databases for AI applications | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code | Understanding customer needs, empathy | 124,029 | null |
40,730 | 40,731 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 55-64 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | None of the above | 45 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media | 44 | Developer, game or graphics | null | null | null | No | Work | Robust and complete API
NA | Availability of better alternatives
NA | Media & Advertising Services | null | Yes | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | null | null | Switzerland | CHF Swiss franc | null | Yes | C++;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Perl;PHP | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;MySQL | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cloudflare | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS;iOS | MacOS;iOS | null | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow | Stack Overflow | Stack Overflow | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | null | No, not really | null | No, and I don't plan to | Unsure | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
40,731 | 40,732 | I am a developer by profession | 55-64 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 22 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement as required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 44 | Developer, full-stack | Less than 20 employees | Individual contributor | Your choice (very flexible, you can come in when you want or just as needed) | No | null | null | null | Retail and Consumer Services | Innovation through solving challenging and complex problems
NA | I'm not sure | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 0 | 0 | Germany | EUR European Euro | 81,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;SQLite | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | jQuery | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio Code | null | null | NA
NA | Google Gemini | null | null | null | null | Ubuntu | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;YouTube | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | Ask a question
NA | No, not at all | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Indifferent | Somewhat distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | Writing code | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | Documenting code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | no | Yes, I use AI agents at work monthly or infrequently | Not at all or minimally | Software engineering | null | AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | null | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | what? | ChatGPT;Claude Code;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to compare different solutions | Thay can think | 93,972 | 3 |
40,732 | 40,733 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 20 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange | 20 | Developer, full-stack | 5,000 to 9,999 employees | People manager | In-person | No | Personal Project | Costs are manageable
NA | Inefficient or time-costly
NA | Software Development | Competitive pay and benefits
NA | Yes | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 6 | 4 | Cyprus | EUR European Euro | 139,200 | Yes | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;TypeScript | JavaScript;TypeScript | JavaScript;TypeScript | TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust
TypeScript, Rust | Yes | MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite | MongoDB;SQLite | MongoDB;SQLite | NA
MongoDB | Yes | Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;npm;pnpm;Podman;Vercel;Vite;Webpack;Yandex Cloud;Yarn | Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;npm;Vite;Yandex Cloud;Yarn | Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;npm;Vite;Yandex Cloud;Yarn | NA
NA | Yes | Angular;Express;Fastify;NestJS;Next.js;Node.js;React;Svelte;Vue.js | Angular;NestJS;Vue.js | Angular;NestJS;Vue.js | NA
Quasar | Yes | Cursor;IntelliJ IDEA;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Nano;Notepad++;PyCharm;Vim;WebStorm | IntelliJ IDEA;Nano;Vim;WebStorm | IntelliJ IDEA;Nano;Vim;WebStorm | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;MacOS;Ubuntu;iOS | MacOS;Ubuntu | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Google Workspace;Jira;Markdown File;Obsidian;Trello | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Markdown File | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Markdown File | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Dev.to;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;LinkedIn;Substack;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models;Perplexity Sonar models;X Grok models | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 5 and 10 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Chat (bot/AI) | Browse content related to Q&A posts I recently viewed
NA | Yes, somewhat | More than half the time | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Somewhat trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data | Deployment and monitoring | Testing code | Writing code;Learning new concepts or technologies | Project planning;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | Yes, "vibe coding" is a part of my professional development work ( | Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, to a great extent | Software engineering;Business process automation;Decision intelligence | Language processing;Agent/multi-agent orchestration;Integration with external agents and APIs | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | null | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | Ollama;Zapier | null | Sentry;Snyk;Grafana + Prometheus | null | ChatGPT;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini;Perplexity | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem | Making business. Standalone. | 161,492 | 7 |
40,733 | 40,734 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 35-44 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 11 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Games or coding challenges | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community) | 20 | Other (please specify): | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Poor usability
NA | Other: | null | Yes | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | 3 | 1 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 265,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;GDScript;Go;Lua;Python;Rust | Rust | Rust | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Sublime Text;Vim;Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;MacOS;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);iOS | MacOS;Ubuntu;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);Linux (non-WSL) | GitHub | GitHub | GitHub | NA
NA | Discord;Reddit;YouTube;LinkedIn | Discord;Reddit | Discord;Reddit | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Infrequently, less than once per year | Chat (people);Message Boards;Coding challenges;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Job board;Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | No, but I plan to soon | Unfavorable | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Project planning;Deployment and monitoring | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | Creating or maintaining documentation | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | null | No, but I plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Networking with people and general communication skills, especially in sales roles. | 265,000 | null |
40,734 | 40,735 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Engaged in paid work (10-19 hours per week) | 36 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification) | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types) | 36 | Developer, desktop or enterprise applications | 10,000 or more employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | No | null | null | null | Media & Advertising Services | Competitive pay and benefits
NA | No | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 4 | 2 | Hungary | HUF Hungarian forint | 25,000,000 | null | C#;C++;Delphi;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;SQL | C#;Delphi;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;SQL | C#;Delphi;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | Firebase Realtime Database;Microsoft SQL Server;MySQL;Oracle;PostgreSQL;SQLite | MySQL;Oracle;PostgreSQL;SQLite | MySQL;Oracle;PostgreSQL;SQLite | NexusDb
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);MSBuild;npm;NuGet;Pip | Amazon Web Services (AWS);MSBuild;npm;NuGet;Pip | Amazon Web Services (AWS);MSBuild;npm;NuGet;Pip | NA
NA | Yes | ASP.NET Core;Blazor;Node.js | ASP.NET Core;Blazor | ASP.NET Core;Blazor | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Delphi 12+ Athens | .NET 8 or higher;Delphi 12+ Athens | .NET 8 or higher;Delphi 12+ Athens | null | null | Windows;Ubuntu;Android;iOS | Windows;Ubuntu;Debian | Airtable;GitHub;Jira;Trello | GitHub;Jira | GitHub;Jira | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | NA
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 3 and 5 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Somewhat trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | null | Project planning;Deployment and monitoring;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | Documenting code;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;I don’t use AI tools regularly | null | Yes, I use AI agents at work monthly or infrequently | Not at all or minimally | Software engineering;Data and analytics | Language processing | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ChatGPT;GitHub Copilot;Microsoft Copilot | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need quick help troubleshooting | null | 72,291 | 7 |
40,735 | 40,736 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Associate degree (A.A., A.S., etc.) | Employed | Volunteering (regularly) | 12 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community) | 24 | Developer, back-end | Less than 20 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Connected to an open-source project
NA | Ethical concerns
NA | Software Development | Solving real-world problems
NA | No | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 12 | 16 | Germany | EUR European Euro | 5,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Python;SQL;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);Go;Java;Python;Rust;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);Java;Python;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Elasticsearch;MariaDB;MongoDB | MongoDB;MySQL;Redis;Valkey | MongoDB | NA
NA | Yes | Docker;Gradle;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Make;Maven (build tool);npm;Pip;Podman;Prometheus;Webpack | Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Make;Maven (build tool);Podman;Prometheus | Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Make;Maven (build tool);Podman;Prometheus | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Ollama | null | null | null | null | MacOS | MacOS | Confluence;GitLab;Jira;Markdown File;Miro | GitLab | GitLab | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange | Stack Overflow | Stack Overflow | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Chat (people) | Answer a question
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Very unfavorable | Highly distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | null | Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | null | No, and I don't plan to | No, but my development work has changed somewhat due to non-AI factors | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | null | 5,801 | 7 |
40,736 | 40,737 | I am a developer by profession | 18-24 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | Attending school (full-time) | null | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training;School (i.e., University, College, etc) | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification) | 2 | Developer, full-stack | null | null | null | No | Personal Project | AI integration or AI Agent capabilities
NA | null | Software Development | null | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 4 | null | Colombia | COP Colombian peso | null | Yes | HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;PHP;PowerShell;Python;R;SQL | C#;C++;Dart;Erlang;Go;Kotlin;Lua;MATLAB;Ruby;Rust;Swift;TypeScript;Visual Basic (.Net);Zig | null | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Supabase | Cassandra;Cloud Firestore;MongoDB;Redis;SQLite | null | NA
NA | null | Maven (build tool);Netlify;npm;Pip | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Chocolatey;Docker;Firebase;Google Cloud;Gradle;Kubernetes;pnpm;Vercel | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Eclipse;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++;Sublime Text;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Android Studio;Claude Code;Cursor;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Lovable.dev;Trae;Vim | null | NA
NA | Tailwind CSS 4;Google Gemini | null | null | null | null | Windows | null | Clickup;GitHub;Markdown File | GitLab;Google Colab;Google Workspace;Notion | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Dev.to | null | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Gemini (Pro Reasoning models) | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 1 and 3 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Coding challenges;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Direct messaging of users | null | No, not really | More than half the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Somewhat trust | Very well at handling complex tasks | Debugging or fixing code;Deployment and monitoring;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | Committing and reviewing code | null | Project planning | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Documenting code;Testing code;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | I haven’t encountered any problems | yes, it's part of my daily work | No, but I plan to | Yes, to a great extent | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions | understanding problems | null | 10 |
40,737 | 40,738 | I am a developer by profession | 55-64 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Volunteering (regularly) | 18 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 41 | Developer, full-stack | Less than 20 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | Work | Reliability and low latency
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Software Development | Other (please specify):
Flexible hours, work life balance | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 20 | 15 | Australia | AUD Australian dollar | 130,000 | Yes | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;SQL;VBA | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;SQL | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft Access;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;SQLite | Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL | Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cloudflare;Microsoft Azure;npm;NuGet | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cloudflare;Microsoft Azure;npm;NuGet | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cloudflare;Microsoft Azure;npm;NuGet | NA
NA | Yes | ASP.NET Core;jQuery;Node.js;Vue.js | ASP.NET Core | ASP.NET Core | NA
NA | Yes | Nano;Notepad++;Rider;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Nano;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Nano;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher | null | null | Windows | Windows | Azure Devops;GitHub;GitLab;Google Workspace;Jira;Markdown File;Trello;Wikis | Azure Devops;GitHub;GitLab;Google Workspace;Jira;Markdown File;Trello;Wikis | Azure Devops;GitHub;GitLab;Google Workspace;Jira;Markdown File;Trello;Wikis | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Multiple times per day | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Other (write in): | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Indifferent | Somewhat distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | Writing code;Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | Only rarely, for languages which I'm unfamiliar with. | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Not at all or minimally | Software engineering | null | null | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | null | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 84,512 | 8 |
40,738 | 40,739 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Volunteering (regularly) | 15 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Blogs or podcasts | 25 | Developer, mobile | I don’t know | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | No | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Ethical concerns
NA | Other: | Solving real-world problems
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | null | null | Netherlands | EUR European Euro | null | Yes | Python;Swift | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Docker;Netlify;npm | null | null | Swift package manager, cocoapods
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio Code;Xcode | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS;iOS;iPadOS | MacOS;iOS;iPadOS | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Markdown File | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Discord;Slack (public channels, not work) | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models) | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Message Boards;Chat (bot/AI) | Ask a question
NA | Neutral | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Neither trust nor distrust | Neither good or bad at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Search for answers | Project planning;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase | Creating or maintaining documentation | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | No | Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | Ollama | null | null | null | ChatGPT;GitHub Copilot | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem | null | null | 9 |
40,739 | 40,740 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Employed | None of the above;Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week) | 9 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system) | 13 | Developer, front-end | 100 to 499 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Security or privacy concerns
AI agents | Software Development | Control over the level of quality in projects
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | null | null | Germany | EUR European Euro | 85,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);Elixir;Erlang;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;SQL;TypeScript;Gleam | Bash/Shell (all shells);Elixir;Erlang;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;SQL;TypeScript;Gleam | Bash/Shell (all shells);Elixir;Erlang;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;SQL;TypeScript;Gleam | NA
NA | Yes | Elasticsearch;PostgreSQL | Elasticsearch;PostgreSQL | Elasticsearch;PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cloudflare;Digital Ocean;Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;npm;Vercel;Vite;Webpack;Yarn | Docker;Homebrew;npm;Vite | Docker;Homebrew;npm;Vite | NA
NA | Yes | Astro;jQuery;Next.js;Node.js;Phoenix;React;Svelte;Vue.js | Astro;Phoenix;Svelte;Vue.js | Astro;Phoenix;Svelte;Vue.js | NA
NA | Yes | WebStorm | WebStorm | WebStorm | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS;Android;iOS;iPadOS | MacOS;Debian | GitHub;GitLab;Jira;Linear;Miro;Notion | GitHub;Jira;Linear;Miro;Notion | GitHub;Jira;Linear;Miro;Notion | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);Bluesky;YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);Bluesky;YouTube | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);Bluesky;YouTube | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Multiple times per day | Between 10 and 15 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Long-form articles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | Browse content related to Q&A posts I recently viewed
NA | No, not really | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Unfavorable | Highly distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;Other (write in): | No, absolutely not | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Literally all of them | 98,612 | 8 |
40,740 | 40,741 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 1 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Colleague or on-the-job training | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement as required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 10 | Data or business analyst | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | No | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Ethical concerns
NA | Other: | null | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 6 | 7 | Lithuania | EUR European Euro | 31,800 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);Python;R;Rust;SQL | Bash/Shell (all shells);R;Rust | Bash/Shell (all shells);R;Rust | Haskell
NA | Yes | DuckDB;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL | DuckDB | DuckDB | NA
NA | Yes | Kubernetes;Microsoft Azure | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Neovim;Visual Studio Code;Zed | Zed | Zed | Rstudio
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS;iOS;Fedora | Windows;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);Debian | Azure Devops;GitHub;Markdown File;Obsidian | GitHub;Markdown File;Obsidian | GitHub;Markdown File;Obsidian | NA
NA | Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Message Boards | null | No, not really | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, and I don't plan to | Very unfavorable | Somewhat distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies;Other (write in): | null | null | null | null | null | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | null | 36,893 | null |
40,741 | 40,742 | I used to be a developer by profession, but no longer am | 55-64 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week) | 40 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts;Books / Physical media | 30 | Engineering manager | 10,000 or more employees | People manager | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | No | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Banking/Financial Services | null | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 5 | 5 | South Africa | ZAR South African rand | null | Yes | C;C#;Dart;Delphi;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;SQL | C;C#;Dart;Delphi;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;Rust;SQL | C;C#;Dart;Delphi;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | Elasticsearch;Microsoft SQL Server;Neo4J;PostgreSQL;SQLite | Elasticsearch;Microsoft SQL Server;MongoDB;Neo4J;SQLite | Elasticsearch;Microsoft SQL Server;Neo4J;SQLite | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Splunk;Terraform | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Splunk;Terraform | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Splunk;Terraform | NA
NA | Yes | ASP.NET Core;Blazor;Flask;jQuery | ASP.NET Core;Blazor;Flask;jQuery | ASP.NET Core;Blazor;Flask;jQuery | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Android Studio;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Android Studio;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Delphi
Delphi | Google Gemini;Delphi 12+ Athens | Google Gemini;Delphi 12+ Athens | Google Gemini;Delphi 12+ Athens | null | null | Windows;Ubuntu;Android;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Windows;Ubuntu;Android;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Trello | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Trello | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Trello | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;LinkedIn | NA
NA | Yes | Gemini (Flash general purpose models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;Perplexity Sonar models | Gemini (Flash general purpose models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models | Gemini (Flash general purpose models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models | NA
NA | No | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Message Boards;Long-form articles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Neutral | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Highly distrust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Project planning;Debugging or fixing code | null | Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | Documenting code;Committing and reviewing code;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Testing code;Search for answers | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | no | No, but I plan to | Yes, somewhat | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | Most current skills. Analysis, architecture, optimisation, problem solving, execution cost comparison | null | null |
40,742 | 40,743 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 12 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community) | 16 | Database administrator or engineer | 100 to 499 employees | People manager | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Inefficient or time-costly
NA | Software Development | Job stability and career growth with a single employer
NA | Yes | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 4 | 2 | India | INR Indian rupee | 2,200,000 | Yes | PowerShell;Python;SQL | PowerShell;Python;SQL | PowerShell;Python;SQL | YAML
NA | Yes | IBM DB2;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL | Databricks SQL;Elasticsearch;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL | Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL | Greenplum
NA | Yes | Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Azure;Vercel | Microsoft Azure | NA
Databricks | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cursor;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;Android | Windows | Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub | Azure Devops;GitHub | Azure Devops;GitHub | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;YouTube;LinkedIn;Company-sponsored forums | Stack Overflow;YouTube;LinkedIn;Company-sponsored forums | Stack Overflow;YouTube;LinkedIn;Company-sponsored forums | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Coding challenges;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Job board | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, but I plan to soon | Unsure | Somewhat trust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Testing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Project planning;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Predictive analytics;Creating or maintaining documentation | Generating content or synthetic data | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;I don’t use AI tools regularly;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | null | Yes, I use AI agents at work monthly or infrequently | Not at all or minimally | null | null | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | LangChain | null | null | null | ChatGPT;Google Gemini;Microsoft Copilot | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | null | 25,573 | 7 |
40,743 | 40,744 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 11 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I didn't spend time learning in the past year | null | 35 | Developer, mobile | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | No | Work | null | null | Software Development | null | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | null | null | Canada | CAD Canadian dollar | 160,000 | Yes | Java;Kotlin | Java;Kotlin | Java;Kotlin | NA
NA | Yes | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++ | Android Studio;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++ | Android Studio;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++ | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows | Windows | Jira | Jira | Jira | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;YouTube | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;YouTube | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;YouTube | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Daily or almost daily | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | No, not really | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, and I don't plan to | Very unfavorable | Highly distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | null | I don’t use AI tools regularly | no | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | null | 116,733 | 10 |
40,744 | 40,745 | I code primarily as a hobby | 18-24 years old | Other (please specify): | Student | Attending school (full-time) | null | Yes, I am new to coding or currently a student | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;School (i.e., University, College, etc) | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
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40,745 | 40,746 | I used to be a developer by profession, but no longer am | 35-44 years old | Professional degree (JD, MD, Ph.D, Ed.D, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Volunteering (regularly);Engaged in paid work (less than 10 hours per week) | 21 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Colleague or on-the-job training | 24 | Other (please specify): | 5,000 to 9,999 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | No | School | Reliability and low latency
NA | Availability of better alternatives
NA | Higher Education | null | I'm not sure | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 11 | 8 | Belgium | EUR European Euro | 84,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;Dart;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;Rust;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;Rust;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;Rust;TypeScript | Haskell
NA | Yes | Cloud Firestore;MariaDB;PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | APT;Cargo;Docker;Firebase;Gradle;Homebrew;Make;Microsoft Azure;npm;Pip;Webpack | Ansible;APT;Cargo;Docker;Homebrew;npm;Pip | APT;Cargo;Docker;Homebrew;npm;Pip | NA
NA | Yes | Flask | Express;FastAPI;Flask;React;Vue.js | Flask | Flutter
NA | Yes | Android Studio;IntelliJ IDEA;Vim;Visual Studio Code;Xcode | Vim;VSCodium | Vim | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS;Android;Debian;iPadOS | Windows;MacOS;Android;Debian | GitHub;GitLab;Markdown File;Obsidian;Trello | GitHub;GitLab;Google Colab;Markdown File;Obsidian | GitHub;GitLab;Markdown File;Obsidian | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | NA
NA | null | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);Meta Llama (all models) | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 10 and 15 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | null | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Learning new concepts or technologies | Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | I'll use vibe coding for some simple tasks, for which it is faster to write a good prompt than coding it myself, and for which the chance of success is high and needed corrections minimal. As AI tools improve, I might use them more and more. | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Understanding client needs to turn them into solutions.
Solving complex problems.
Being able to understand and criticise AI-generated code. | 97,452 | null |
40,746 | 40,747 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | None of the above | 11 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system) | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange | 14 | Developer, back-end | null | null | null | No | Work | Reliability and low latency
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | Competitive pay and benefits
NA | Yes | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 3 | 5 | Serbia | RSD Serbian dinar | null | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Lua;PowerShell;Python;SQL;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Lua;PowerShell;Python;SQL;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Lua;PowerShell;Python;SQL;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Cosmos DB;Microsoft SQL Server;Redis;SQLite | Microsoft SQL Server;Redis;SQLite | Microsoft SQL Server;Redis;SQLite | NA
NA | Yes | Docker;Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;npm;NuGet;Pip;Yarn | Docker;Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;npm;NuGet;Pip;Yarn | Docker;Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;npm;NuGet;Pip;Yarn | NA
NA | Yes | Angular;AngularJS;ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core;jQuery;Vue.js | Angular;AngularJS;ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core;jQuery;Vue.js | Angular;AngularJS;ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core;jQuery;Vue.js | NA
NA | Yes | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4 | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4 | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4 | null | null | Windows;Ubuntu;Debian | Windows | Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub | Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub | Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Daily or almost daily | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Coding challenges;Logic games/puzzles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Chat (bot/AI) | null | Neutral | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Unfavorable | Neither trust nor distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | null | Testing code;Other (write in): | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Generating content or synthetic data | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I don’t use AI tools regularly | null | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering | null | AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Common sense. | null | 8 |
40,747 | 40,748 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Engaged in paid work (10-19 hours per week) | 10 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | 14 | Senior executive (C-suite, VP, etc.) | 20 to 99 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | No | Work | Customizable and manageable codebase
NA | Ethical concerns
NA | Software Development | Opportunities to mentor and lead junior-level coworkers
NA | No | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | null | null | Pakistan | USD United States dollar | null | Yes | C;C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;PowerShell;Python;SQL | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Redis | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cloudflare;Composer;Docker;Firebase;Google Cloud;npm;Vercel;Webpack;Yarn | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | jQuery;Laravel;Next.js;Node.js;React;Vue.js;WordPress | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Lovable.dev;Notepad++;PhpStorm;Sublime Text;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code;Xcode | null | null | NA
NA | Tailwind CSS 4;hostinger;Odoo;Large Language Model;Ollama | null | null | null | null | Windows;Android;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);ChromeOS | Windows;Android;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);ChromeOS | Airtable;Asana;Clickup;Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Google Colab;Google Workspace;Miro;Monday.com;Trello | GitHub;Monday.com | GitHub;Monday.com | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Dev.to;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky;X;YouTube;Twitch;LinkedIn;Substack | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | NA
NA | Yes | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Meta Llama (all models) | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Chat (people);Coding challenges;Chat (bot/AI) | null | Yes, definitely | More than half the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Somewhat trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 4 |
40,748 | 40,749 | I used to be a developer by profession, but no longer am | 65 years or older | Associate degree (A.A., A.S., etc.) | Retired | None of the above | 51 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I didn't spend time learning in the past year | null | 51 | Developer, back-end | null | null | null | null | Work | Easy-to-use API
NA | Poor usability
NA | null | null | null | null | null | 4 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | null | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C++;Dart;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;Perl;PHP;SQL;Visual Basic (.Net) | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;MySQL | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cloudflare;Composer;Firebase;Gradle;Maven (build tool);npm;Supabase | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | FastAPI;jQuery;Node.js;React | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | c++23 | null | null | null | null | Windows;Android;ChromeOS | Windows;Android | GitHub;Google Workspace | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky;YouTube;Twitch | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Chat (people);Message Boards;Coding challenges;Direct messaging of users | null | Yes, somewhat | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, and I don't plan to | Indifferent | Neither trust nor distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies;Other (write in): | null | null | null | I don’t use AI tools regularly | No | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Other (please specify): | null | null | null |
40,749 | 40,750 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 8 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I didn't spend time learning in the past year | null | 17 | Developer, full-stack | 10,000 or more employees | Individual contributor | In-person | No | Work | Reliability and low latency
N/A | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | You like your manager
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 10 | null | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 116,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;SQL | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;SQL | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | Firebase Realtime Database;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;SQLite;Supabase | Firebase Realtime Database;Microsoft SQL Server;SQLite;Supabase | Firebase Realtime Database;Microsoft SQL Server;SQLite;Supabase | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core;Blazor;jQuery | Angular;ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core;Blazor;Express;Next.js;Node.js | ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core;Blazor | NA
NA | Yes | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher | null | null | Windows | Windows | Azure Devops;GitHub | Azure Devops | Azure Devops | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Multiple times per day | Between 5 and 10 years | Less than once per month or monthly | Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Job board | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | Yes, somewhat | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Highly distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Documenting code;Testing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | Committing and reviewing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | Generating content or synthetic data | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | No. It is too untrustworthy and buggy. | No, and I don't plan to | Yes, somewhat | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | null | 116,000 | 8 |
40,750 | 40,751 | I am a developer by profession | 55-64 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 24 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I didn't spend time learning in the past year | null | 24 | Architect, software or solutions | 10,000 or more employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | Personal Project | Costs are manageable
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Internet, Telecomm or Information Services | Control over the level of quality in projects
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 6 | 2 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | null | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C#;C++;JavaScript;PowerShell;SQL;TypeScript | Erlang;Rust | null | NA
NA | Yes | BigQuery;Cassandra;Cosmos DB;Microsoft SQL Server;Snowflake | Cosmos DB;Microsoft SQL Server | Cosmos DB;Microsoft SQL Server | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Notepad++;Sublime Text;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Notepad++;Visual Studio | Notepad++;Visual Studio | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows | Windows;Ubuntu;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Lucid (includes Lucidchart) | Azure Devops;Confluence;Jira | Azure Devops;Confluence;Jira | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Dev.to | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Coding challenges;Logic games/puzzles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.) | Ask a question
NA | No, not really | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Unfavorable | Somewhat distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | Documenting code;Creating or maintaining documentation | Project planning;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Generating content or synthetic data | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;I don’t use AI tools regularly | what? | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | All of them. My opinion is that AI might be good for boilerplate coding tasks, assisting with documentation, or other menial tasks, but it will never replace the creativity or reasoning the human mind is capable of. If developers or engineers use this AI fad as a crutch, dev skills like clean code, DRY, SOLID, and any other basic but proven methodology will atrophy. | null | 7 |
40,751 | 40,752 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week) | 11 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Colleague or on-the-job training;Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange | 14 | Developer, full-stack | 500 to 999 employees | Individual contributor | Your choice (very flexible, you can come in when you want or just as needed) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
40,752 | 40,753 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 20 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training | 33 | Developer, full-stack | Less than 20 employees | People manager | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Outdated or obsolete technology or features
NA | Software Development | Autonomy and trust to manage your own tasks
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 8 | null | Netherlands | EUR European Euro | 70,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;SQL;TypeScript | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | MySQL;Redis | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Webpack | null | null | Aws copilot
NA | Yes | Django;React | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio Code | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | iOS;Fedora | Fedora | GitHub;Miro;YouTrack | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | null | null | null | NA
NA | Not sure/can't remember | A few times per week | Between 10 and 15 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | null | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Neither trust nor distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code | Project planning;Documenting code;Deployment and monitoring;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | Learning about a codebase;Predictive analytics;Learning new concepts or technologies | Testing code | Search for answers | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;Other (write in): | I once tried, had an LLM generate some code, and then took over immediately to fix it according to my requirements, because it didn’t understand my correction in natural language | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | null | null | AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | null | AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Solving complex problems, domain specific requirements, maintaining quality, team cooperation, devops process improvements, deciding what’s important, validate correct functioning of features | 81,210 | 9 |
40,753 | 40,754 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 7 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Coding Bootcamp | No, I didn't spend time learning in the past year | null | 7 | Data engineer | 500 to 999 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a tool that more than five colleagues use but it is not a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Reliability and low latency
NA | Inefficient or time-costly
NA | Fintech | Working with new technologies and tools
NA | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 6 | 4 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 126,000 | Yes | Go;Groovy;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;Python;SQL | Go;Groovy;MATLAB;MicroPython;Python;Ruby;SQL | Go;Groovy;Python;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | MySQL;Oracle;PostgreSQL | Databricks SQL;MySQL;Oracle;PostgreSQL;Snowflake | MySQL;Oracle;PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | Google Cloud;Gradle;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Maven (build tool);Pip;Splunk | Ansible;Google Cloud;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Maven (build tool);npm;Pip;Splunk | Google Cloud;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Maven (build tool);Pip;Splunk | NA
NA | Yes | Django;Flask;jQuery;React | Django;Flask;Ruby on Rails | Django;Flask | NA
NA | Yes | Notepad++;Sublime Text;Vim;Visual Studio Code | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Notepad++;PyCharm;Sublime Text;Visual Studio Code | Notepad++;Sublime Text;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);iOS;Linux (non-WSL);ChromeOS | Windows;ChromeOS | GitHub;GitLab | GitHub;GitLab | GitHub;GitLab | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;YouTube;LinkedIn | NA
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Videos;Coding challenges;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Job board | Answer a question
NA | Not sure | About half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Neither trust nor distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Documenting code;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring | Project planning;Writing code;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | Learning about a codebase | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving;Other (write in): | I use vibe coding to get a boiler plate but don't trust anything AI gives me back until i test it rigorously. AI is great but the more i use it the less i see it as a threat right now. | Yes, I use AI agents at work weekly | Yes, to a great extent | Software engineering;Data and analytics | Language processing | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | AI agents have increased my productivity. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | null | AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | LanceDB;LangMem | null | Ollama;phidata | null | null | null | ChatGPT;Claude Code;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini;Glean (Enterprise Agents) | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Data Analytics, Logging, OOP understanding, Data Structures and Algorithms | 126,000 | 1 |
40,754 | 40,755 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Employed | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week) | 5 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training;Coding Bootcamp | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Colleague or on-the-job training;Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange | 7 | Developer, mobile | 100 to 499 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | No | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Inefficient or time-costly
NA | Software Development | Opportunities to mentor and lead junior-level coworkers
NA | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 3 | 7 | Ecuador | USD United States dollar | 32,000 | Yes | C;Dart;HTML/CSS;Java;Kotlin;PHP;PowerShell;Python;SQL;Swift;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;Dart;Go;Kotlin;PowerShell;Python;Swift | C;Dart;Kotlin;PowerShell;Python;Swift | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Angular;FastAPI;jQuery;WordPress | FastAPI;WordPress | FastAPI;WordPress | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;Eclipse;IntelliJ IDEA;Neovim;Notepad++;Vim;Visual Studio Code;Xcode | Android Studio;Claude Code;Cursor;Visual Studio Code;Xcode | Android Studio;Visual Studio Code;Xcode | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;Ubuntu;Android;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);iOS;iPadOS | MacOS;Android;iOS | Asana;Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Google Colab;Google Workspace;Jira;Miro;Notion;Stack Overflow for Teams;Wikis | Confluence;GitHub;Google Colab;Google Workspace;Jira;Miro;Notion;Stack Overflow for Teams;Wikis | Confluence;GitHub;Google Colab;Google Workspace;Jira;Miro;Notion;Stack Overflow for Teams;Wikis | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);YouTube;Medium;Company-sponsored forums | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium;Company-sponsored forums | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);YouTube;Medium;Company-sponsored forums | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 3 and 5 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Chat (people);Long-form articles;Videos;Coding challenges;Job board | Comment on Q&A posts
NA | No, not really | About half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Very favorable | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Deployment and monitoring;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | Project planning;Documenting code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics | Learning about a codebase;Testing code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;Other (write in): | No, becuase my work require solving complex problems and not allow me to use AI due to copyright rules | Yes, I use AI agents at work weekly | Yes, to a great extent | Software engineering;Business process automation;Decision intelligence;Data and analytics;Customer service support;Marketing | Multi-platform search enablement;Integration with external agents and APIs;Personalized agent creation | AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | Neo4j | null | AutoGen (Microsoft) | null | Galileo;New Relic | null | ChatGPT;Google Gemini;Auto-GPT;Perplexity | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem | Constant learning, soft skills, best practices coding, architecture problems solving. | 32,000 | 10 |
40,755 | 40,756 | I code primarily as a hobby | 65 years or older | Professional degree (JD, MD, Ph.D, Ed.D, etc.) | Retired | None of the above | 50 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 55 | Retired | null | null | null | null | Personal Project | Costs are manageable
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | null | null | null | null | null | 6 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 0 | Yes | Python | Python | Python | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Eclipse;Visual Studio Code | Eclipse | Eclipse | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow | Stack Overflow | sourceforge
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once per month or monthly | Between 10 and 15 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | null | Ask a question
NA | Neutral | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Highly trust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | Writing code;Search for answers | I haven’t encountered any problems | no | No, and I don't plan to | Yes, somewhat | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I don’t think I’ll need help from people anymore | null | null | null |
40,756 | 40,757 | I work with developers or my work supports developers but am not a developer by profession | 65 years or older | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Not employed | None of the above | 27 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media | 8 | Developer, QA or test | null | null | null | null | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Outdated or obsolete technology or features
NA | null | null | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 3 | 1 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | null | Yes | Java | Java | Java | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Maven (build tool) | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Maven (build tool) | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Maven (build tool) | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++ | IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++ | IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++ | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows | Windows | GitHub | GitHub | GitHub | NA
NA | YouTube;LinkedIn | YouTube;LinkedIn | YouTube;LinkedIn | MeetUp
MeetUp | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once per month or monthly | Between 1 and 3 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Chat (people);Direct messaging of users | Ask a question
NA | Neutral | Rarely, almost never | No, but I plan to soon | Favorable | Somewhat trust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | I don’t use AI tools regularly | No. | Yes, I use AI agents at work monthly or infrequently | Not at all or minimally | Other Industry purpose (write in): | null | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Google Gemini | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting;I don’t think I’ll need help from people anymore | Complex algorithmic development. | null | null |
40,757 | 40,758 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 45-54 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Transitioning to retirement (gradually reducing work hours);Engaged in paid work (less than 10 hours per week) | 20 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Blogs or podcasts | 25 | Data or business analyst | Less than 20 employees | Individual contributor | Your choice (very flexible, you can come in when you want or just as needed) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Easy-to-use API
NA | Inefficient or time-costly
NA | Energy | null | No | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | 6 | 4 | Denmark | DKK Danish krone | 500,000 | Yes | C;C++;HTML/CSS;PowerShell;Python;R;SQL | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;Microsoft SQL Server;SQLite | Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;SQLite | Microsoft SQL Server;SQLite | NA
NA | Yes | APT;Docker;Make;npm;NuGet;Pip | APT;Docker;npm;NuGet;Pip | APT;Docker;npm;NuGet;Pip | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Claude Code;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Nano;Visual Studio Code | Claude Code;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Nano;Visual Studio Code | Claude Code;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Nano;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;Android;Debian | Windows;Android | GitHub;Markdown File;Microsoft Planner;Obsidian | GitHub;Markdown File;Microsoft Planner;Obsidian | GitHub;Markdown File;Microsoft Planner;Obsidian | NA
NA | Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Microsoft Phi-4 models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Microsoft Phi-4 models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Microsoft Phi-4 models | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once per month or monthly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Long-form articles;Coding challenges;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.) | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | Project planning;Debugging or fixing code;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase;Documenting code | Writing code | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;Other (write in): | No | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Not at all or minimally | Business process automation;IT operations | Integration with external agents and APIs | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;Write in the most significant benefit if not listed above. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | null | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Creativity and turning business problems into solvable problems | 77,760 | null |
40,758 | 40,759 | I am a developer by profession | 18-24 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week);Attending school (full-time) | 4 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community) | 12 | Developer, back-end | 500 to 999 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | No | null | null | null | Banking/Financial Services | Competitive pay and benefits
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | null | null | Estonia | EUR European Euro | null | Yes | Assembly;Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;Go;Java;JavaScript;Python | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;Elixir;Go;Java | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;Go;Java | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;SQLite | PostgreSQL;SQLite | PostgreSQL;SQLite | NA
NA | Yes | Ansible;Cloudflare;Docker;Google Cloud;Kubernetes;Podman;Railway;Supabase;Terraform;Yarn | Cloudflare;Docker;Google Cloud;Terraform;Yarn | Cloudflare;Docker;Google Cloud;Terraform;Yarn | NA
NA | Yes | Angular;Astro;Flask;Node.js;Spring Boot;Svelte | Angular;Astro;Spring Boot;Svelte | Angular;Astro;Spring Boot;Svelte | NA
NA | Yes | IntelliJ IDEA;Neovim;Zed | IntelliJ IDEA;Neovim;Zed | IntelliJ IDEA;Neovim;Zed | NA
NA | c++23;Tailwind CSS 4;RAG;Google Gemini | c++23;Tailwind CSS 4;RAG;Google Gemini | c++23;Tailwind CSS 4;RAG;Google Gemini | null | null | MacOS;iOS;iPadOS;Red Hat | MacOS | Confluence;GitLab;Google Workspace;Jira;Linear | Confluence;GitLab;Google Workspace;Jira;Linear | Confluence;GitLab;Google Workspace;Jira;Linear | NA
NA | Stack Overflow | Stack Overflow | Stack Overflow | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | null | Yes, somewhat | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Unfavorable | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | null | Project planning;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation | Learning about a codebase;Documenting code;Testing code;Learning new concepts or technologies | Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I don’t use AI tools regularly;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving | null | No, and I don't plan to | No, but my development work has changed somewhat due to non-AI factors | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 9 |
40,759 | 40,760 | I am learning to code | 18-24 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Student | None of the above | null | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | null | Student | null | null | null | null | Personal Project | Connected to an open-source project
NA | Outdated or obsolete technology or features
NA | null | null | I'm not sure | null | 1 | null | India | INR Indian rupee | null | Yes | Java;SQL | Go;Java;R;Rust | Java | NA
NA | Yes | MongoDB;MySQL | MongoDB;MySQL | MongoDB;MySQL | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Spring Boot | Laravel;React;Spring Boot | Spring Boot | NA
NA | Yes | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
40,760 | 40,761 | I am learning to code | 18-24 years old | Secondary school (e.g. American high school, German Realschule or Gymnasium, etc.) | Student | Attending school (full-time) | null | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Games or coding challenges;School (i.e., University, College, etc) | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 4 | Student | null | null | null | null | Personal Project | Reputation for quality
NA | Inefficient or time-costly
NA | null | null | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 5 | 4 | India | INR Indian rupee | 0 | Yes | Assembly;C;C#;C++;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Lua;Python;SQL | Assembly;C++;OCaml;PowerShell | Assembly;C++ | NA
NA | Yes | MongoDB;MySQL;SQLite | MongoDB;MySQL | MongoDB;MySQL | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Express;Next.js;Node.js | Express;Next.js;Node.js | Express;Next.js;Node.js | NA
NA | Yes | Neovim;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Neovim;Visual Studio | Neovim;Visual Studio | NA
NA | c++23 | c++23 | c++23 | null | null | Windows | Windows;Ubuntu | Doxygen;GitHub;Miro | Doxygen;GitHub | Doxygen;GitHub | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Daily or almost daily | Between 3 and 5 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | Browse content related to Q&A posts I recently viewed
NA | Yes, somewhat | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very unfavorable | Somewhat trust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | null | null | Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving | NO | No, and I don't plan to | No, but my development work has significantly changed due to non-AI factors | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code | Problem Solving | null | null |
40,761 | 40,762 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week) | 21 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts | 21 | Architect, software or solutions | Less than 20 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Good brand and public image
NA | Availability of better alternatives
NA | Software Development | Competitive pay and benefits
NA | Yes | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 15 | 15 | Romania | EUR European Euro | 100,000 | Yes | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;TypeScript | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;TypeScript | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Cosmos DB;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;Supabase;Pocketbase | Cosmos DB;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;Pocketbase | Cosmos DB;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;Pocketbase | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Chocolatey;Microsoft Azure;npm;NuGet;pnpm;Supabase;Vercel;Vite | Microsoft Azure;npm;NuGet;pnpm;Vite | Microsoft Azure;npm;NuGet;pnpm;Vite | NA
NA | Yes | ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core;Astro;Next.js;React | ASP.NET Core;Astro;Next.js;React | ASP.NET Core;Astro;Next.js;React | NA
NA | Yes | Cursor;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Lovable.dev;Rider;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code;Zed | Cursor;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Rider;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code;Zed | Cursor;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Rider;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code;Zed | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4;Microsoft Fabric;Shadcn/ui | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4;Microsoft Fabric;Shadcn/ui | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4;Microsoft Fabric;Shadcn/ui | null | null | Windows;MacOS;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);iOS;iPadOS | Windows;MacOS;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);iOS;iPadOS | Azure Devops;Clickup;GitHub;Jira;Linear;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Microsoft Planner;Notion;Obsidian | Azure Devops;GitHub;Linear;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Microsoft Planner;Notion | Azure Devops;GitHub;Linear;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Microsoft Planner;Notion | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);YouTube | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once per month or monthly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Message Boards;Long-form articles | Answer a question
NA | No, not really | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Somewhat trust | Neither good or bad at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Debugging or fixing code | Generating content or synthetic data | Project planning;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | Learning about a codebase;Documenting code;Testing code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | more and more | Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, to a great extent | Software engineering;IT operations;Data and analytics | MCP servers | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | AI agents have increased my productivity. | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | GitHub MCP Server | notion | null | null | null | null | ChatGPT;Claude Code;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini;Microsoft Copilot;v0.dev | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers | architecture, processes, data structures | 116,015 | 7 |
40,762 | 40,763 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 5 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Blogs or podcasts;Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange | 9 | Developer, full-stack | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | No | Work | Reliability and low latency
NA | Ethical concerns
NA | Banking/Financial Services | Innovation through solving challenging and complex problems
NA | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 15 | null | India | INR Indian rupee | 9,000,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Python;SQL | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft SQL Server | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Django;FastAPI;Node.js;React;Spring Boot | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cursor;IntelliJ IDEA;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Nano;PyCharm;Visual Studio Code;WebStorm | null | null | Clion
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;Red Hat | null | GitHub;Markdown File | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;LinkedIn;Substack;Medium | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models;Perplexity Sonar models | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | null | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Somewhat trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | Project planning;Deployment and monitoring | null | Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | No | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering | null | AI agents have increased my productivity. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | null | 104,616 | 6 |
40,763 | 40,764 | I code primarily as a hobby | 35-44 years old | Primary/elementary school | Not employed | None of the above | null | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Blogs or podcasts | 10 | Developer, front-end | null | null | null | null | Personal Project | Reputation for quality
NA | Availability of better alternatives
NA | null | null | Yes | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | null | 6 | Poland | EUR European Euro | 0 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Lua;MicroPython;PHP;PowerShell;Python;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;MicroPython;PHP;Python;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;MicroPython;PHP;Python;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;MongoDB;PostgreSQL;SQLite | MongoDB | MongoDB | NA
NA | Yes | Bun;Cloudflare;Docker;Gradle;npm;NuGet;Pip;pnpm;Vercel;Vite;Yarn | Cloudflare;Docker;Vite | Cloudflare;Docker;Vite | Deno
Deno | Yes | Astro;Deno;Express;FastAPI;Fastify;Node.js;React;Svelte;Vue.js | Astro;Deno;React;Vue.js | Astro;Deno;React;Vue.js | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;Nano;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code;VSCodium;Windsurf | Nano;Notepad++;Visual Studio Code | Nano;Notepad++;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4;Large Language Model;Google Gemini;Shadcn/ui;Ollama | Tailwind CSS 4;Large Language Model | Tailwind CSS 4;Large Language Model | null | null | Windows;Ubuntu;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);Debian;Linux (non-WSL) | Windows;Debian | GitHub;GitLab;Google Colab;Google Workspace;Redmine;Trello | GitHub | GitHub | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Dev.to;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);Bluesky;X;YouTube;Twitch;LinkedIn | Discord;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Discord;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | NA
NA | Yes | Alibaba Cloud Qwen models;Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);Meta Llama (all models);Perplexity Sonar models;X Grok models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Perplexity Sonar models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Perplexity Sonar models | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once per month or monthly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Chat (people);Long-form articles;Videos;Chat (bot/AI);Other (write in): | Ask a question
NA | Neutral | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Somewhat trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | null | Deployment and monitoring | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving | no | No, but I plan to | Yes, somewhat | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem | the ability to use the brain | null | null |
40,764 | 40,765 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 2 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Colleague or on-the-job training | 7 | Developer, full-stack | Less than 20 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
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NA | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | NA
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NA | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
40,765 | 40,766 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Professional degree (JD, MD, Ph.D, Ed.D, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 22 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Colleague or on-the-job training | 26 | Developer, full-stack | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | Work | Easy-to-use API
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Healthcare | Autonomy and trust to manage your own tasks
NA | Yes | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 7 | null | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 175,000 | Yes | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;SQL | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;SQL | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server | NA
NA | Yes | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Angular;AngularJS | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Notepad++;Visual Studio | Notepad++;Visual Studio | Notepad++;Visual Studio | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher | null | null | Windows | Windows | Azure Devops | Azure Devops;GitHub;GitLab;Jira | Azure Devops | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;YouTube;Company-sponsored forums | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;YouTube;Company-sponsored forums | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;YouTube;Company-sponsored forums | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Daily or almost daily | Between 10 and 15 years | A few times per week | Message Boards;Job board | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Yes, somewhat | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, and I don't plan to | Very unfavorable | Highly distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Generating content or synthetic data | null | null | Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I don’t use AI tools regularly;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | No | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | Fixing what AI tools break | 175,000 | 8 |
40,766 | 40,767 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 6 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification) | 11 | Developer, full-stack | 20 to 99 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Healthcare | Solving real-world problems
NA | I'm not sure | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | 5 | 1 | Germany | EUR European Euro | 75,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);Python;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);Python;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Dynamodb;Redis | Dynamodb;Redis;Valkey | Dynamodb;Redis | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Vite;Yarn | Amazon Web Services (AWS);npm;Vite;Yarn | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Vite;Yarn | NA
NA | Yes | NestJS;Node.js;React | Node.js;React | Node.js;React | NA
NA | Yes | Cursor;Visual Studio Code | Cursor | Cursor | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;MacOS;iOS | MacOS | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Notion | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Miro;Notion | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Notion | NA
NA | Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models) | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models) | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Chat (people);Videos;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.) | Use discussion or chat feature
NA | Neutral | About half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Neither trust nor distrust | Neither good or bad at handling complex tasks | Search for answers | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | No | Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, to a great extent | Software engineering | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ChatGPT;Claude Code;Lovable.dev | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | Ethics, solution architect, problem solving, planning | 87,011 | 8 |
40,767 | 40,768 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week) | 11 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Blogs or podcasts | 7 | Database administrator or engineer | Just me - I am a freelancer, sole proprietor, etc. | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Energy | Working with new technologies and tools
NA | No | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 15 | 10 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 240,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;SQL | JavaScript;Python;SQL;TypeScript | JavaScript;Python;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;Snowflake | DuckDB;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;SQLite | Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Pip | Docker;Kubernetes | Docker;Kubernetes | uv
uv | Yes | FastAPI;Node.js;React | FastAPI;Node.js;React | FastAPI;Node.js;React | NA
NA | Yes | Notepad++;Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | Continue
Continue | Polars;Pydantic;Ollama;uv | Polars;Pydantic;Ollama;uv | Polars;Pydantic;Ollama;uv | null | null | MacOS | Windows;MacOS;Linux (non-WSL) | Confluence;GitHub;Jira | GitHub;Jira | GitHub;Jira | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky;Medium | NA
NA | Yes | DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Meta Llama (all models) | DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Meta Llama (all models);Mistral AI models | DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Meta Llama (all models) | NA
NA | Yes | Daily or almost daily | Between 5 and 10 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Long-form articles;Coding challenges;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.) | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | No, not really | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Neither trust nor distrust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | Project planning;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | no | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;Other (please specify): | Critical thinking, code/system architecture design, working with users/stakeholders of end product, designing the best solution not just an average or common solution | 240,000 | 7 |
40,768 | 40,769 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Employed | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week);Attending school (full-time) | 5 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts;Games or coding challenges;School (i.e., University, College, etc) | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange | 7 | DevOps engineer or professional | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a tool that more than five colleagues use but it is not a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Good brand and public image
NA | Availability of better alternatives
NA | Higher Education | Autonomy and trust to manage your own tasks
NA | I'm not sure | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 10 | 10 | Germany | EUR European Euro | null | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);Groovy;Python;SQL;Mojo | Bash/Shell (all shells);Go;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Python;Rust;SQL;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);Python;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | PostgreSQL;SQLite | PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Ansible;Cargo;Docker;Homebrew;Pip;Poetry | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Ansible;Cargo;Docker;Homebrew;Pip;Terraform | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Ansible;Cargo;Docker;Homebrew;Pip | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Nano;PyCharm;Visual Studio Code;Zed | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Nano;PyCharm;Visual Studio Code;Zed | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Nano;PyCharm;Visual Studio Code;Zed | NA
NA | Large Language Model;RAG;uv | Tailwind CSS 4;Polars;Large Language Model;Amazon Bedrock;Pydantic;RAG;uv | Large Language Model;RAG;uv | null | null | MacOS;Ubuntu;iPadOS | Windows;MacOS;Ubuntu;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);Debian | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Jira | GitHub;GitLab;Linear | GitHub;GitLab | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;Dev.to;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;Twitch;LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;Dev.to;Hacker News;Hashnode;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;Twitch;LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;Dev.to;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;Twitch;LinkedIn;Medium | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models;Perplexity Sonar models | Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models;Perplexity Sonar models | Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models;Perplexity Sonar models | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Videos;Coding challenges | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Somewhat trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Search for answers | Project planning;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Deployment and monitoring | Documenting code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | No | No, but I plan to | No, but my development work has changed somewhat due to non-AI factors | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code | IT infrastructure maintenance | null | 8 |
40,769 | 40,770 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | None of the above | 12 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system) | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification) | 8 | Developer, full-stack | null | null | null | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | Autonomy and trust to manage your own tasks
NA | No | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | 2 | 2 | Brazil | BRL Brazilian real | 120,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;PowerShell;SQL;TypeScript | Go;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Kotlin;Lua;PowerShell;Rust;TypeScript | HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Cloud Firestore;MySQL | Cloud Firestore;PostgreSQL;Supabase;Pocketbase | Cloud Firestore | NA
NA | Yes | Firebase;Google Cloud;Homebrew;npm;pnpm;Vercel;Vite | Bun;Firebase;Google Cloud;pnpm;Vercel;Vite | Firebase;Google Cloud;pnpm;Vercel;Vite | NA
NA | Yes | Express;Next.js;Node.js;Svelte | Express;Node.js;Svelte | Express;Node.js;Svelte | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio Code | Cursor;Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | null | null | null | svelte 5 | svelte 5 | Windows;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Windows;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Google Workspace;Markdown File | Google Workspace;Markdown File | Google Workspace;Markdown File | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit;Dev.to;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit;Dev.to;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit;Dev.to;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;Medium | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 5 and 10 years | A few times per week | Long-form articles;Videos;Coding challenges;Direct messaging of users | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Yes, definitely | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Favorable | Highly distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Writing code;Committing and reviewing code | Debugging or fixing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | Documenting code;Testing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | null | Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I don’t use AI tools regularly;Other (write in): | No | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code | Abstracting code and writing human readable/reviewable code. Having clarity on the solutions that are needed for the problem. Filtering through the noise to make logical/ethical distinctions and decision over best practices. Hierarchize problems, code and contexts. | 21,844 | 9 |
40,770 | 40,771 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Professional degree (JD, MD, Ph.D, Ed.D, etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 16 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Games or coding challenges | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification) | 21 | Developer, back-end | 20 to 99 employees | People manager | In-person | No | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Manufacturing | Solving real-world problems
NA | I'm not sure | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry involuntarily | 6 | null | Germany | EUR European Euro | 85,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;JavaScript;Python | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;JavaScript;Python | NA
NA | null | SQLite | MongoDB;SQLite | SQLite | NA
guestdb | Yes | APT;Docker;Make;Ninja;npm;Pacman;Pip | APT;Docker;Make;Ninja;npm;Pacman;Pip | APT;Docker;Make;Ninja;npm;Pacman;Pip | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Neovim;Notepad++;Vim;Visual Studio Code | Aider;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Neovim;Notepad++;Vim;Visual Studio Code | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Neovim;Notepad++;Vim;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | Large Language Model | c++23;Large Language Model;RAG;Google Gemini;Ollama | Large Language Model | null | null | Android;Debian;Linux (non-WSL) | Windows;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);Debian | Confluence;Doxygen;Jira;Markdown File | Confluence;Doxygen;GitLab;Jira;Markdown File | Confluence;Doxygen;Jira;Markdown File | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | NA
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models | NA
NA | Not sure/can't remember | Daily or almost daily | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Infrequently, less than once per year | Chat (people);Message Boards;Coding challenges;Chat (bot/AI) | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Indifferent | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Project planning;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | Debugging or fixing code;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Documenting code;Testing code | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;I don’t use AI tools regularly | no, not really. Those AI tools seem to work only with support. Otherwise the output seems to become garbage. | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Not at all or minimally | Data and analytics;Other Industry purpose (write in): | null | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have increased my productivity. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | analytical thinking, problem solving strategies, understanding complexity | 98,612 | 6 |
40,771 | 40,772 | I am a developer by profession | 55-64 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week) | 31 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community) | 44 | Developer, back-end | Just me - I am a freelancer, sole proprietor, etc. | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Connected to an open-source project
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | Control over the level of quality in projects
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 10 | 10 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 245,000 | Yes | C#;Go;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Lua;MicroPython;Python;SQL;Swift;TypeScript | Go;HTML/CSS;Lua;Python;SQL;Swift;TypeScript | Go;HTML/CSS;Lua;Python;SQL;Swift;TypeScript | TinyGo, WASM
TinyGo | Yes | BigQuery;Cloud Firestore;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite | BigQuery;Cloud Firestore;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite;Cockroachdb | BigQuery;Cloud Firestore;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite | Bolt, Badger
Bolt, Badger | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cloudflare;Digital Ocean;Docker;Firebase;Google Cloud;Homebrew;Make;Poetry | Cloudflare;Digital Ocean;Docker;Firebase;Google Cloud;Homebrew | Cloudflare;Digital Ocean;Docker;Firebase;Google Cloud;Homebrew | Fly.io
Fly.io | Yes | Astro;Django;FastAPI;Flask;jQuery;React;Svelte | Svelte | Svelte | HTMX, AlpineJS, Datastar
HTMX, AlpineJS, Datastar | Yes | Aider;Claude Code;Cursor;Nano;Visual Studio Code;Windsurf;Xcode | Claude Code;Cursor;Nano;Vim;Visual Studio Code;Xcode | Claude Code;Cursor;Nano;Visual Studio Code;Xcode | Copilot
Copilot | Large Language Model;SwiftData;Pydantic;Google Gemini | Large Language Model;Google Gemini | Large Language Model;Google Gemini | null | null | MacOS;iOS;iPadOS | MacOS;Ubuntu;iOS;Debian;iPadOS | GitHub;Google Colab;Google Workspace;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Notion;Obsidian | GitHub;Google Workspace;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Obsidian | GitHub;Google Workspace;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Markdown File;Obsidian | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);X;YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);Meta Llama (all models);Mistral AI models;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models;X Grok models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);Mistral AI models;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);Mistral AI models;openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | Qwen
Qwen | Yes | A few times per week | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not at all | More than half the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Somewhat trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Search for answers | null | Deployment and monitoring | Predictive analytics;Learning new concepts or technologies | Documenting code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | Yes I use "vibe coding" daily. I'm an excellent very senior developer and leveraging AI makes me 10x faster. I do review most of the code because it is frequently not quite right or missed some key element and occasionally is completely wrong or erroneous. I consider the process more like I'm an engineering manager and have a fleet of mid-level developers at my disposal but definitely need checked up on. | Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, to a great extent | Software engineering;Decision intelligence | Language processing;Vector databases for AI applications;MCP servers | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | null | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | GitHub MCP Server;Weaviate;Pinecone | null | Llama Index;Ollama;LangGraph | null | Sentry | null | ChatGPT;Claude Code;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini;Auto-GPT | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;I don’t think I’ll need help from people anymore | You still have to be a good developer. Working with AI is similar to working with people. You need good software design skills, communication skills (for prompting), you really still need significantly good debugging and problem solving skills. You still need a knack for product development and an eye for what the customer wants. | 245,000 | 10 |
40,772 | 40,773 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 11 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types) | 8 | Developer, full-stack | 20 to 99 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | No | Personal Project | Robust and complete API
NA | Ethical concerns
NA | Insurance | Other (please specify):
not be treated like a fucking junior and have tasks and solutions spoonfed to me like a baby and then have everyone be shocked that i actually have a skillset that matches my 8 years of software engineering experience and NOT having my manager tell me that he thought it was actually my boyfriend doing all of my work for me (im a woman) for some really weird reason like he thought i was dumb or something???? even though??? i have more experience than him??? | I'm not sure | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 8 | 5 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 135,000 | Yes | C#;TypeScript | Swift;TypeScript | TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft SQL Server | PostgreSQL;Supabase | null | NA
NA | Yes | Digital Ocean;Docker;Microsoft Azure;Terraform | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Blazor | Express;FastAPI;Fastify;NestJS;Next.js;Node.js;Nuxt.js | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cursor;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4 | null | null | null | null | MacOS | Windows | Azure Devops | GitHub | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models) | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | null | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | null | Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving;Other (write in): | Yes I do use vibe coding, but I distrust it, I try to only use it when I'm stuck on a problem or when I lack a starting point for a solution | No, and I don't plan to | Yes, somewhat | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Being able to use logic, general basic coding skills, being able to read code | 135,000 | 0 |
40,773 | 40,774 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Associate degree (A.A., A.S., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 21 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system) | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 23 | Developer, full-stack | 20 to 99 employees | People manager | Your choice (very flexible, you can come in when you want or just as needed) | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Work | Connected to an open-source project
NA | Availability of better alternatives
NA | Computer Systems Design and Services | Autonomy and trust to manage your own tasks
NA | Yes | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 11 | 4 | France | EUR European Euro | 40,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;PowerShell;SQL;TypeScript | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;SQL;TypeScript | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;SQL;TypeScript | Haxe
Haxe | Yes | MariaDB;Microsoft SQL Server;MySQL | MariaDB;Microsoft Access;Microsoft SQL Server | MariaDB;Microsoft SQL Server | NA
CouchDB | Yes | Composer;MSBuild;npm;NuGet | Composer;Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;npm;NuGet | Composer;MSBuild;npm;NuGet | NA
NA | Yes | ASP.NET Core;Node.js | ASP.NET Core;Blazor;Node.js | ASP.NET Core;Node.js | Lit
Lit | Yes | Nano;Visual Studio Code | Nano;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Nano;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher;Odoo;Large Language Model | .NET 8 or higher | null | null | Windows;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Windows;Red Hat | GitHub;Markdown File;Wikis | GitHub;Markdown File;Wikis | GitHub;Markdown File;Wikis | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | Mastodon
Mastodon | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 10 and 15 years | A few times per month or weekly | Chat (people);Long-form articles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | Yes, somewhat | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, and I don't plan to | Very unfavorable | Highly distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Deployment and monitoring;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I don’t use AI tools regularly;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | No! | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | An analytical mind. | 46,406 | 10 |
40,774 | 40,775 | I used to be a developer by profession, but no longer am | 35-44 years old | Associate degree (A.A., A.S., etc.) | Not employed | None of the above | 5 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Games or coding challenges | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 12 | Other (please specify): | null | null | null | null | Personal Project | Other (please specify):
helpful and sensible | Ethical concerns
related to big tech | null | null | I'm not sure | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | null | null | Austria | EUR European Euro | null | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Lisp;TypeScript;Zig | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Lisp;TypeScript;Zig | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Lisp;TypeScript;Zig | NA
NA | Yes | PostgreSQL;SQLite | PostgreSQL;SQLite | PostgreSQL;SQLite | NA
NA | Yes | Bun;Docker;Pacman;Webpack | Bun;Docker;Pacman | Bun;Docker;Pacman | NA
NA | Yes | null | null | null | htmx
htmx | Yes | Neovim | null | null | emacs
emacs | null | null | null | null | null | Arch | Arch | GitHub;GitLab | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow | Stack Overflow | Stack Overflow | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | A few times per month or weekly | Long-form articles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.) | Ask a question
NA | Neutral | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Indifferent | Highly distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Debugging or fixing code;Search for answers | Project planning;Writing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Learning new concepts or technologies | Documenting code;Testing code;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | no | No, and I don't plan to | Yes, somewhat | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | to be able to think | null | null |
40,775 | 40,776 | I am learning to code | 18-24 years old | Secondary school (e.g. American high school, German Realschule or Gymnasium, etc.) | Student | Volunteering (regularly);Attending school (full-time) | 1 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Games or coding challenges;School (i.e., University, College, etc) | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement as required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 7 | Student | null | null | null | null | Personal Project | Easy-to-use API
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | null | null | I'm not sure | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | null | null | Spain | EUR European Euro | null | Yes | Assembly;Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Rust;Zig | Assembly;Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;Zig | Assembly;Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;Zig | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Claude Code;IntelliJ IDEA;Nano;Neovim;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code;VSCodium;Zed | Nano;Neovim;VSCodium;Zed | Nano;Neovim;VSCodium;Zed | NA
NA | c++23;Large Language Model | c++23 | c++23 | null | null | Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);Linux (non-WSL);Arch | Windows;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | GitHub;GitLab;Notion | GitHub;GitLab | GitHub;GitLab | NA
NA | Discord | Discord | Discord | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Gemini (Flash general purpose models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models | null | null | NA
NA | No | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | null | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, and I don't plan to | Very unfavorable | Highly distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies;Other (write in): | null | null | null | Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I don’t use AI tools regularly;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving | No | No, and I don't plan to | No, but my development work has changed somewhat due to non-AI factors | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null |
40,776 | 40,777 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Volunteering (regularly) | 20 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts | 25 | Developer, back-end | 100 to 499 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | No | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Software Development | Autonomy and trust to manage your own tasks
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 8 | null | Denmark | DKK Danish krone | 840,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;C++;F#;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;SQL | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;F#;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;SQL | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;F#;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | Elasticsearch;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;SQLite | Elasticsearch;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite | Elasticsearch;Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;SQLite | NA
NA | Yes | Chocolatey;Docker;Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;npm;NuGet;Prometheus | Chocolatey;Docker;Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;npm;NuGet;Podman;Prometheus | Chocolatey;Docker;Microsoft Azure;MSBuild;npm;NuGet;Prometheus | NA
NA | Yes | ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core | ASP.NET Core | ASP.NET Core | NA
NA | Yes | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | Notepad++;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Large Language Model;RAG;Ollama | .NET 8 or higher | .NET 8 or higher | null | null | Windows;iOS | Windows;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Azure Devops;GitHub | Azure Devops;GitHub | Azure Devops;GitHub | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | NA
NA | Yes | Meta Llama (all models);Mistral AI models;openAI GPT (chatbot models) | Meta Llama (all models);Mistral AI models;openAI GPT (chatbot models) | Meta Llama (all models);Mistral AI models;openAI GPT (chatbot models) | NA
NA | Yes | Daily or almost daily | Between 10 and 15 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | null | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | No, but I plan to soon | Unsure | Highly distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Project planning;Documenting code;Testing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Creating or maintaining documentation | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;It’s hard to understand how or why the code works | No | No, but I plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem | null | 130,637 | 8 |
40,777 | 40,778 | I am a developer by profession | 55-64 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | None of the above | 30 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Blogs or podcasts | 35 | Architect, software or solutions | null | null | null | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Reliability and low latency
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Software Development | Autonomy and trust to manage your own tasks
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 9 | 5 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 250,000 | Yes | C#;Go;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;SQL;TypeScript | C++;Kotlin;Lua;Rust;Swift;Gleam | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cosmos DB;Databricks SQL;Dynamodb;Elasticsearch;MariaDB;Microsoft SQL Server;MongoDB;MySQL;Neo4J;Oracle;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite | BigQuery;Cassandra;DuckDB;Supabase;Cockroachdb;Amazon Redshift;Pocketbase | null | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Composer;Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Make;Microsoft Azure;npm;NuGet;Splunk | New Relic;Prometheus;Supabase;Terraform | null | NA
NA | Yes | AngularJS;ASP.NET Core;jQuery;Node.js;React;Spring Boot | Django;Drupal;FastAPI;Vue.js | null | NA
NA | Yes | Claude Code;Cursor;IntelliJ IDEA;Neovim;PhpStorm;PyCharm;Rider;Visual Studio Code;VSCodium | Claude Code;Cursor;Neovim;Visual Studio Code;VSCodium | Claude Code;Cursor;Neovim;Visual Studio Code;VSCodium | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Large Language Model;RAG;Google Gemini;Ollama | .NET 8 or higher;Large Language Model;RAG;Microsoft Fabric | .NET 8 or higher;Large Language Model;RAG | null | null | Linux (non-WSL) | Linux (non-WSL) | Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Stack Overflow for Teams | Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Stack Overflow for Teams | Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Stack Overflow for Teams | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Slack (public channels, not work);YouTube;LinkedIn;Substack;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Bluesky;YouTube | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);Gemini (Flash general purpose models);Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);Meta Llama (all models);openAI GPT (chatbot models) | Amazon Titan models;Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);Meta Llama (all models);Microsoft Phi-4 models;openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);Meta Llama (all models) | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Less than once per month or monthly | Chat (people);Long-form articles;Videos;Direct messaging of users;Job board | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | Neutral | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Somewhat distrust | Neither good or bad at handling complex tasks | Project planning;Writing code;Deployment and monitoring;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | null | Learning about a codebase;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | I would describe my development process as archicture with ai assistant, coding via vibe coding with significant modifications
| Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering;Business process automation;Data and analytics;Marketing | Integration with external agents and APIs;Personalized agent creation | AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | null | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | null | Redis;Fireproof;Neo4j;GitHub MCP Server;ChromaDB | null | AutoGen (Microsoft);Llama Index | null | Sentry;New Relic;Grafana + Prometheus | null | ChatGPT;Claude Code;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini;Microsoft Copilot | Cursor, Warp | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to compare different solutions;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem | Software Architecture, Design, System Architecture, Project Managgement, Communication | 250,000 | 8 |
40,778 | 40,779 | I work with developers or my work supports developers but am not a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Associate degree (A.A., A.S., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 30 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training | 30 | DevOps engineer or professional | 10,000 or more employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a tool that more than five colleagues use but it is not a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Reliability and low latency
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Banking/Financial Services | null | Yes | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 20 | 10 | Canada | CAD Canadian dollar | 120,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);Groovy;Python | Go;Swift | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Ansible;Chocolatey;Datadog;Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Poetry;Terraform | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Ansible;Chocolatey;Datadog;Homebrew;Poetry;Prometheus;Terraform | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Ansible;Chocolatey;Datadog;Homebrew;Poetry;Terraform | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Vim;Visual Studio Code | Claude Code;Cursor;Vim;Visual Studio Code;Xcode | Vim;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS;iOS | MacOS;Linux (non-WSL) | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Markdown File | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Markdown File | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Markdown File | Klaxoon
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);LinkedIn | NA
NA | Yes | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Chat (people);Message Boards;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Direct messaging of users;Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | Answer a question
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Search for answers | Project planning;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | Learning about a codebase;Documenting code | Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | null | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | null | null | MCP servers | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks. | null | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem | All non-coding skills | 87,550 | null |
40,779 | 40,780 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | null | 25 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Books / Physical media | 27 | Engineering manager | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | People manager | Remote | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Retail and Consumer Services | Job stability and career growth with a single employer
NA | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 10 | 5 | Greece | EUR European Euro | null | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;Python;SQL;TypeScript | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cosmos DB;Elasticsearch;H2;PostgreSQL;Redis | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cloudflare;Datadog;Digital Ocean;Docker;Gradle;Kubernetes;Maven (build tool);Microsoft Azure;npm;Pip;Prometheus;Terraform | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Astro;FastAPI;Next.js;React;Spring Boot;Vue.js | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Claude Code;IntelliJ IDEA;Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Vim;Visual Studio Code | null | null | NA
NA | Large Language Model;Pydantic;RAG;Ollama;uv | null | null | null | null | Ubuntu;Android;Debian | MacOS | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Jira;Lucid (includes Lucidchart);Miro | null | null | NA
NA | Reddit;Dev.to;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;Kaggle;YouTube;LinkedIn;Medium | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;Gemini (Pro Reasoning models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Infrequently, less than once per year | Long-form articles;Videos;Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | null | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Somewhat trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Documenting code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Deployment and monitoring | null | null | Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Search for answers | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving | Not unless you nderstand the underlying technology and review the output. | Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, to a great extent | Software engineering | Agent/multi-agent orchestration;Vector databases for AI applications;MCP servers;Integration with external agents and APIs;Personalized agent creation | AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | null | null | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | null | Redis;Qdrant | null | AutoGen (Microsoft);Ollama;LangChain | null | Grafana + Prometheus | null | ChatGPT;Claude Code;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Problem solving, socio-technical architecture, collaborative software design. | null | 6 |
40,780 | 40,781 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 9 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Blogs or podcasts | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement as required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 16 | Developer, back-end | 20 to 99 employees | Individual contributor | Your choice (very flexible, you can come in when you want or just as needed) | No | Work | Robust and complete API
NA | Outdated or obsolete technology or features
NA | Fintech | Control over the level of quality in projects
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 4 | 3 | Austria | EUR European Euro | 54,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;SQL | Go;PHP;SQL;Swift;TypeScript | PHP;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;PostgreSQL;Redis | PostgreSQL;SQLite | PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Prometheus | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Kubernetes;Prometheus | Docker;Kubernetes;Prometheus | NA
NA | Yes | jQuery;Laravel;Node.js;React;Symfony | Symfony;Vue.js | Symfony | NA
NA | Yes | PhpStorm;Vim | PhpStorm;Vim;Xcode | PhpStorm;Vim | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS;iOS;iPadOS | MacOS | Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Markdown File | Confluence;GitHub;Markdown File | Confluence;GitHub;Markdown File | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | Yes, somewhat | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, and I don't plan to | Indifferent | Somewhat distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase;Generating content or synthetic data | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | No | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem | Being capable of simplifying complex business workflows into maintainable code. | 62,648 | 7 |
40,781 | 40,782 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Volunteering (regularly) | 15 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Colleague or on-the-job training | 10 | Architect, software or solutions | 100 to 499 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was open-source and is currently used by more than just myself but no purchase was made | Personal Project | Reputation for quality
NA | Outdated or obsolete technology or features
NA | Software Development | null | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 5 | 2 | Czech Republic | CZK Czech koruna | 1,200,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Kotlin;PowerShell;Python;R;Rust;SQL;TypeScript;VBA | Bash/Shell (all shells);Go;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Kotlin;Lua;Python;R;Rust;SQL;Zig | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Kotlin;Python;R;Rust;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | BigQuery;Cassandra;DuckDB;MariaDB;Microsoft SQL Server;MySQL;Neo4J;PostgreSQL;Snowflake;SQLite;Clickhouse | DuckDB;Neo4J;PostgreSQL;SQLite;Clickhouse | DuckDB;Neo4J;PostgreSQL;SQLite;Clickhouse | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Google Cloud;Gradle;Kubernetes;Maven (build tool);npm;Vite;Webpack;Yarn | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Kubernetes;npm;Vite | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Kubernetes;npm;Vite | NA
NA | Yes | Flask;Next.js;React;Svelte;Vue.js | FastAPI;Flask;Next.js;React;Svelte | Flask;Next.js;React;Svelte | NA
NA | Yes | PyCharm;Visual Studio Code;Windsurf;Zed | Windsurf;Zed | Windsurf;Zed | NA
NA | Microsoft Fabric;Google Gemini | Polars | null | null | null | Linux (non-WSL);Arch | Linux (non-WSL);Arch | GitHub;Jira;Markdown File;Miro;Obsidian | GitHub;Jira;Markdown File | GitHub;Jira;Markdown File | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Kaggle;LinkedIn;Medium | GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Kaggle;Medium | GitHub (public projects, not private repos);Kaggle;Medium | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Logic games/puzzles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.) | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Unsure | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Debugging or fixing code;Learning new concepts or technologies | Project planning;Deployment and monitoring;Creating or maintaining documentation | Learning about a codebase;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Search for answers | Writing code;Documenting code;Testing code;Generating content or synthetic data | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;I don’t use AI tools regularly;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving | yes and I do not like that | Yes, I use AI agents at work weekly | Yes, somewhat | Data and analytics;Customer service support | Language processing | AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | Write in the most significant benefit if not listed above. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | Neo4j | null | Zapier | null | Grafana + Prometheus | null | ChatGPT;Google Gemini | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I have ethical or security concerns about code | graphical design, architecture proposal | 56,167 | null |
40,782 | 40,783 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 9 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system) | 17 | Developer, back-end | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | null | null | null | Software Development | You like your manager
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | null | null | Canada | CAD Canadian dollar | 250,000 | Yes | C;Go;Python | C;Go;Python | C;Go;Python | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);APT;Docker;Google Cloud;Kubernetes;Make | Amazon Web Services (AWS);APT;Docker;Google Cloud;Kubernetes;Make | Amazon Web Services (AWS);APT;Docker;Google Cloud;Kubernetes;Make | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Vim;Visual Studio Code;VSCodium | Aider;Cline and/or Roo;VSCodium;Zed | VSCodium | NA
NA | Google Gemini;Ollama | Google Gemini;Ollama | Google Gemini;Ollama | null | null | Fedora | Fedora | Confluence;GitHub | GitHub | GitHub | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);LinkedIn | NA
NA | Yes | Alibaba Cloud Qwen models;Meta Llama (all models) | Alibaba Cloud Qwen models | Alibaba Cloud Qwen models | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 10 and 15 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | Long-form articles | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Unfavorable | Highly distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Writing code;Documenting code;Testing code;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | null | Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | No | No, but I plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | Almost all of them | 182,396 | 7 |
40,783 | 40,784 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Engaged in paid work (20-29 hours per week) | 14 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Colleague or on-the-job training | 14 | Data engineer | 500 to 999 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a tool that more than five colleagues use but it is not a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Customizable and manageable codebase
NA | null | Other: | null | Yes | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | null | null | Germany | EUR European Euro | 80,000 | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL | Microsoft SQL Server | Mssql powerbi
Mssql powerbi | null | Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Azure | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;Android | Windows | null | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Stack Overflow;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | NA
NA | Yes | Gemini (Flash general purpose models);openAI GPT (chatbot models) | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | NA
NA | Yes | Less than once per month or monthly | Between 10 and 15 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | null | null | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | No, but I plan to soon | Unfavorable | Somewhat trust | Bad at handling complex tasks | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Creating or maintaining documentation | Writing code;Learning new concepts or technologies | Deployment and monitoring;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;I don’t use AI tools regularly | null | No, and I don't plan to | No, but my development work has changed somewhat due to non-AI factors | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to learn best practices;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | null | 92,812 | 10 |
40,784 | 40,785 | I am a developer by profession | 18-24 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 10 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 11 | Developer, full-stack | Less than 20 employees | People manager | In-person | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Other (please specify):
Active maintenance | Availability of better alternatives
NA | Other: | null | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | null | null | United States of America | USD United States dollar | null | Yes | F#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;OCaml;Python;SQL;TypeScript | HTML/CSS;OCaml;Python;SQL;TypeScript | HTML/CSS;OCaml;Python;SQL;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | BigQuery;DuckDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Clickhouse | BigQuery;DuckDB;PostgreSQL;Clickhouse | BigQuery;DuckDB;PostgreSQL;Clickhouse | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | NA
NA | Yes | Deno;Node.js;React | Deno;React | Deno;React | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS | MacOS | GitHub;Monday.com | GitHub;Monday.com | GitHub;Monday.com | NA
NA | Stack Overflow | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Image generating models;openAI Reasoning models | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Chat (bot/AI) | null | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Yes. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 10 |
40,785 | 40,786 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | null | 12 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system) | 13 | Developer, full-stack | 100 to 499 employees | People manager | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | No | Personal Project | Reliability and low latency
NA | Poor usability
NA | Software Development | Control over the level of quality in projects
NA | Yes | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 4 | 4 | Turkey | TRY Turkish lira | 1,800,000 | Yes | Dart;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;PowerShell;Python;Swift;TypeScript | Dart;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;Rust;TypeScript;Zig | Dart;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft SQL Server;MySQL;PostgreSQL | Dynamodb;Elasticsearch;Firebase Realtime Database;PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Google Cloud;Gradle;Homebrew;Maven (build tool);Microsoft Azure;npm;Vite;Webpack;Yarn | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Google Cloud;Gradle;Kubernetes;Vite | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Google Cloud;Gradle;Vite | NA
NA | Yes | Angular;Express;Node.js;Nuxt.js;Spring Boot;Svelte;Vue.js | Deno;Node.js;Nuxt.js;Spring Boot;Svelte;Vue.js | Node.js;Nuxt.js;Spring Boot;Svelte;Vue.js | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;Eclipse;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++;Visual Studio Code;Xcode | Android Studio;Cursor;IntelliJ IDEA;Visual Studio Code | Android Studio;IntelliJ IDEA;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | Tailwind CSS 4;Large Language Model | Large Language Model | Large Language Model | null | null | Windows;MacOS;Android | Windows;Ubuntu;Android;iOS | GitHub;GitLab;Jira;Microsoft Planner;Obsidian;Trello | GitHub;GitLab;Trello | GitHub;GitLab;Trello | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Bluesky;X;Kaggle;YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Slack (public channels, not work);Bluesky;Kaggle;YouTube | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Bluesky;Kaggle;YouTube | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Long-form articles;Videos | Browse content related to Q&A posts I recently viewed
NA | No, not really | More than half the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very favorable | Highly trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Writing code | null | Debugging or fixing code;Deployment and monitoring | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Documenting code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | No. Not yet, but things are moving in that direction. "Vibe Coder" seems to be my future. | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering;Data and analytics | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks. | null | null | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I don’t think I’ll need help from people anymore | Strong expressive ability, Inclusive and broad-sighted perspective over systems | 45,446 | 4 |
40,786 | 40,787 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Volunteering (regularly) | 33 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Other (please specify): | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement as required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 33 | Architect, software or solutions | 5,000 to 9,999 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Easy-to-use API
Typesafety | Poor usability
NA | Banking/Financial Services | Solving real-world problems
NA | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 30 | 15 | Netherlands | EUR European Euro | 100,000 | Yes | Assembly;Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C#;C++;Delphi;Go;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;PowerShell;Python;Rust;SQL;Swift;TypeScript | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Cosmos DB;Dynamodb;Elasticsearch | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cargo;Chocolatey;Cloudflare;Docker;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Make;Microsoft Azure;npm;NuGet;Pip;Terraform;Vite;Yarn | null | null | Esbuild
NA | Yes | Astro;Node.js;React;Vue.js | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Claude Code;Cursor;Nano;Notepad++;Visual Studio Code;Xcode | null | null | NA
NA | Tailwind CSS 4;Large Language Model;Amazon Bedrock;Microsoft Fabric | null | null | null | null | MacOS;iOS | Windows;NixOS | Azure Devops;Confluence;GitHub;Jira;Markdown File;Miro;Wikis | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);LinkedIn;Medium | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Daily or almost daily | More than 15 years, or since Stack Overflow started in 2008 | Infrequently, less than once per year | Chat (bot/AI) | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Neither trust nor distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Documenting code;Creating or maintaining documentation | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Learning new concepts or technologies | Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | null | Testing code;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;Other (write in): | Not yet | Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering;Customer service support | null | AI agents have increased my productivity. | null | AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | Amazon Bedrock Agents | null | null | null | ChatGPT;Claude Code;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini;Microsoft Copilot | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something | Creativity | 116,015 | 8 |
40,787 | 40,788 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 10 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system) | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement as required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 15 | Engineering manager | 100 to 499 employees | People manager | Remote | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Robust and complete API
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Software Development | null | No | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry voluntarily | 10 | 3 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 140,000 | Yes | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PowerShell;SQL;TypeScript;Visual Basic (.Net) | C#;HTML/CSS;SQL;TypeScript | C#;HTML/CSS;SQL;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft SQL Server;PostgreSQL;SQLite | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft Azure;Podman;Vite | Microsoft Azure;Podman;Vite | Microsoft Azure;Podman;Vite | NA
NA | Yes | ASP.NET Core;Blazor;React | ASP.NET Core;Blazor;React | ASP.NET Core;Blazor;React | NA
NA | Yes | Rider;Visual Studio;Visual Studio Code;WebStorm | Rider;Visual Studio Code;WebStorm | Rider;Visual Studio Code;WebStorm | NA
NA | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4 | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4 | .NET 8 or higher;Tailwind CSS 4 | null | null | Windows;MacOS;iOS;Linux (non-WSL) | Windows;Linux (non-WSL) | Azure Devops | Azure Devops | Azure Devops | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;YouTube;Medium | Stack Overflow;YouTube | Stack Overflow;YouTube | NA
NA | Yes | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | openAI GPT (chatbot models) | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | null | null | No, not really | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Indifferent | Somewhat distrust | Neither good or bad at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Debugging or fixing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | Testing code | Documenting code;Generating content or synthetic data | Committing and reviewing code | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | No | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents. | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Problem solving skills & determining what requirements actually are. | 140,000 | 8 |
40,788 | 40,789 | I am a developer by profession | 18-24 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Engaged in paid work (less than 10 hours per week) | 3 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system) | 6 | Other (please specify): | 20 to 99 employees | People manager | Your choice (very flexible, you can come in when you want or just as needed) | No | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Outdated or obsolete technology or features
NA | Software Development | Working with new technologies and tools
NA | No | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | null | null | India | INR Indian rupee | 1,000,000 | Yes | Assembly;Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;Dart;Go;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;Lua;Python;Rust;SQL | Bash/Shell (all shells);Dart;HTML/CSS;Python;Rust;SQL | Bash/Shell (all shells);Dart;HTML/CSS;Python;Rust;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | Cloud Firestore;Firebase Realtime Database;InfluxDB;MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite | Cloud Firestore;Firebase Realtime Database;MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite;Supabase | Cloud Firestore;Firebase Realtime Database;MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);APT;Cargo;Chocolatey;Cloudflare;Docker;Firebase;Gradle;Heroku;Homebrew;Make;Pacman;Pip;Poetry;Supabase | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Ansible;Cargo;Cloudflare;Docker;Firebase;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Make;Pacman;Pip;Supabase | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cargo;Cloudflare;Docker;Firebase;Homebrew;Make;Pacman;Pip;Supabase | uv
NA | Yes | Django;FastAPI;Flask | Django;FastAPI;Flask | Django;FastAPI;Flask | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;PyCharm;RustRover;Sublime Text;Vim;Visual Studio Code;Windsurf | Android Studio;PyCharm;RustRover;Vim;Visual Studio Code;Windsurf | Android Studio;PyCharm;RustRover;Vim;Visual Studio Code;Windsurf | NA
NA | Large Language Model;Pydantic;Google Gemini;uv | Large Language Model;Pydantic;Google Gemini;uv | Large Language Model;Pydantic;Google Gemini;uv | null | null | MacOS;Android | MacOS;Android | GitHub;GitLab;Markdown File;Miro;Notion;Wikis | GitHub;GitLab;Markdown File | GitHub;GitLab;Markdown File | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;Dev.to;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Daily or almost daily | Between 3 and 5 years | Less than once every 2 - 3 months | null | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | Yes, definitely | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Somewhat trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | Project planning;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Predictive analytics | Learning about a codebase;Deployment and monitoring;Generating content or synthetic data | Documenting code;Creating or maintaining documentation | Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | null | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering | Agent/multi-agent orchestration;Vector databases for AI applications;Integration with external agents and APIs | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code | Systems knowledge | 11,624 | 8 |
40,789 | 40,790 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.) | 8 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification) | 10 | Developer, embedded applications or devices | 500 to 999 employees | People manager | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | No | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Computer Systems Design and Services | Job stability and career growth with a single employer
NA | I'm not sure | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 5 | 6 | Israel | ILS Israeli new shekel | 560,000 | Yes | Assembly;Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C++;Groovy;Python | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Notepad++;Vim;Visual Studio Code | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Ubuntu;Android;Linux (non-WSL) | Ubuntu;Android;Linux (non-WSL) | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Jira;Markdown File | null | null | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;YouTube;LinkedIn | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Logic games/puzzles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Chat (bot/AI) | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Favorable | Somewhat distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Learning new concepts or technologies | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | Documenting code;Testing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;I don’t use AI tools regularly | It is used only for mostly straight forward function or boilerplate code generation | No, and I don't plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | Technical intuition and imagination | 164,720 | 8 |
40,790 | 40,791 | I code primarily as a hobby | 35-44 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Independent contractor, freelancer, or self-employed | None of the above | 7 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Blogs or podcasts | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | null | 30 | Developer, full-stack | null | null | null | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was ultimately not purchased or used at my organization | Personal Project | Reliability and low latency
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | null | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 7 | 5 | Ukraine | UAH Ukrainian hryvnia | null | Yes | HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Rust;SQL;TypeScript | C;Elixir;OCaml;Rust;Zig | Rust | NA
NA | Yes | MongoDB;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite;Supabase | Supabase | Supabase | NA
SurrealDB | Yes | Cargo;Digital Ocean;Docker;Firebase;Google Cloud;Kubernetes;Netlify;npm;pnpm;Vite;Webpack | Cargo;Cloudflare;Docker;Supabase | Cargo;Docker | NA
NA | Yes | Fastify;NestJS;Node.js;React | Fastify;Node.js;Phoenix | Fastify;Node.js | Actix-web
Actix-web, Hono, Elysia | Yes | IntelliJ IDEA;RustRover;Visual Studio Code;VSCodium | RustRover | RustRover | NA
NA | Tailwind CSS 4 | null | null | null | null | Windows;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) | Linux (non-WSL);Arch | null | null | null | NA
NA | Discord;Reddit;YouTube;Twitch;LinkedIn | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | A few times per week | Between 5 and 10 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | Chat (people);Coding challenges;Job board;Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | Yes, somewhat | null | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Unfavorable | Somewhat distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | Documenting code;Testing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | null | I don’t use AI tools regularly | No | Yes, I use AI agents at work monthly or infrequently | No, but my development work has significantly changed due to non-AI factors | null | null | null | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks. | null | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ChatGPT;Claude Code;GitHub Copilot;Google Gemini | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to compare different solutions | The same ones as these days | null | null |
40,791 | 40,792 | I am a developer by profession | 25-34 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Volunteering (regularly);Attending school (part-time) | 10 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | Colleague or on-the-job training | 14 | Developer, full-stack | 20 to 99 employees | Individual contributor | Hybrid (some in-person, leans heavy to flexibility) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a tool that more than five colleagues use but it is not a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Security or privacy concerns
NA | Software Development | Competitive pay and benefits
NA | No | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | 5 | 2 | Uruguay | USD United States dollar | 20,000 | Yes | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript | C#;HTML/CSS;JavaScript | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server | NA
NA | Yes | npm;NuGet | npm;NuGet | npm;NuGet | Teamcity
NA | Yes | ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core | ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core | ASP.NET;ASP.NET Core | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio | Visual Studio | Visual Studio | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows | Windows;Linux (non-WSL) | YouTrack | YouTrack | YouTrack | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Less than once per month or monthly | null | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Highly trust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Debugging or fixing code | Project planning;Testing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | Writing code;Documenting code;Committing and reviewing code | null | Search for answers | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Other (write in): | No | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering | null | null | AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need quick help troubleshooting | null | 20,000 | 8 |
40,792 | 40,793 | I am a developer by profession | 35-44 years old | Some college/university study without earning a degree | Employed | None of the above | 25 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system) | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | 32 | Developer, full-stack | 20 to 99 employees | Individual contributor | In-person | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was ultimately not purchased or used at my organization | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Outdated or obsolete technology or features
NA | Software Development | Opportunities to mentor and lead junior-level coworkers
NA | I'm not sure | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry involuntarily | 2 | 1 | Malaysia | MYR Malaysian ringgit | 168,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);Dart;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;SQL;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);Dart;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;SQL;TypeScript | Bash/Shell (all shells);Dart;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;Kotlin;SQL;TypeScript | NA
NA | Yes | PostgreSQL;SQLite | PostgreSQL;SQLite | PostgreSQL;SQLite | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Firebase;Google Cloud;Gradle;npm;pnpm;Vercel | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Firebase;Google Cloud;Gradle;npm;pnpm;Vercel | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Firebase;Google Cloud;Gradle;npm;pnpm;Vercel | NA
NA | Yes | Express;Next.js;Node.js;React;WordPress | Express;Next.js;Node.js;React;WordPress | Express;Next.js;Node.js;React;WordPress | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;Notepad++;Visual Studio Code | Android Studio;Notepad++;Visual Studio Code | Android Studio;Notepad++;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | Tailwind CSS 4 | Tailwind CSS 4 | Tailwind CSS 4 | null | null | Windows;Android | Ubuntu;Android;iOS | Confluence;GitHub;Jira | Confluence;GitHub;Jira | Confluence;GitHub;Jira | NA
NA | GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;X Grok models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;X Grok models | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;X Grok models | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | null | Read and/or vote on comments for a Question or Answer I am interested in
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Very unfavorable | Somewhat distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | Project planning;Documenting code;Testing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | no | Yes, I use AI agents at work daily | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | null | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks. | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | Microsoft Copilot | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem | null | 39,585 | 9 |
40,793 | 40,794 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 20 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 10 | UX, Research Ops or UI design professional | 10,000 or more employees | People manager | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a tool that more than five colleagues use but it is not a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Reputation for quality
NA | Availability of better alternatives
NA | Healthcare | null | No | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 20 | 12 | Netherlands | EUR European Euro | 150,000 | Yes | GDScript;HTML/CSS | GDScript;HTML/CSS | GDScript;HTML/CSS | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS | MacOS | Confluence;GitHub;Miro;Wikis | Confluence;GitHub;Miro;Wikis | Confluence;GitHub;Miro;Wikis | Figma
Figma | Stack Overflow;Reddit;Medium | Stack Overflow;Reddit;Medium | Stack Overflow;Reddit;Medium | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 10 and 15 years | I have never participated in Q&A on Stack Overflow | null | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Highly distrust | Neither good or bad at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Debugging or fixing code;Search for answers;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | Writing code;Documenting code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | No. I'm still learning too much by doing and don't have the level of expertise to be great at evaluation. | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | Business process automation;Data and analytics;Marketing;Other Industry purpose (write in): | null | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I want to fully understand something;When I have ethical or security concerns about code | Literacy, architecture, discernment, software design | 174,022 | null |
40,794 | 40,795 | I am a developer by profession | 45-54 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | None of the above | 22 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts;Games or coding challenges | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Blogs or podcasts | 29 | Developer, game or graphics | 20 to 99 employees | People manager | Hybrid (some remote, leans heavy to in-person) | Yes, I influenced the purchase of a substantial addition to the tech stack | Work | Costs are manageable
NA | Prohibitive pricing
NA | Software Development | Collaboration and support from a team
NA | No | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 4 | 2 | France | EUR European Euro | 96,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C#;PowerShell;Python | Go;Groovy;R | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | Android Studio;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Xcode | Android Studio;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Xcode | Android Studio;Notepad++;Visual Studio;Xcode | NA
NA | Google Gemini | Google Gemini | Google Gemini | null | null | Windows;Ubuntu;Android | Windows;MacOS;Android;iOS;iPadOS | GitHub;Jira;Miro;Notion | GitHub;Jira;Miro;Notion | GitHub;Jira;Miro;Notion | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Reddit;Hacker News;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Long-form articles;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Chat (bot/AI) | Answer a question
NA | No, not really | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools daily | Favorable | Neither trust nor distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Documenting code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | Project planning;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | Search for answers | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite | no | No, but I plan to | Yes, somewhat | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting | game development | 111,374 | 7 |
40,795 | 40,796 | I used to be a developer by profession, but no longer am | 45-54 years old | Professional degree (JD, MD, Ph.D, Ed.D, etc.) | Not employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Volunteering (regularly) | 37 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Other (please specify): | 45 | Senior executive (C-suite, VP, etc.) | null | null | null | null | Work | Other (please specify):
Strength of ecosystem, and issue/pull-request management as a proxy for quality | Other (please specify):
Poor privacy policies and/or unfriendly TOS | null | null | Yes | I have strongly considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 35 | 80 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 650,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;Python;Ruby | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;Python;Ruby | Bash/Shell (all shells);HTML/CSS;Python;Ruby | Fish Shell, Zsh, AppleScript, Ruby on Rails (as opposed to just Ruby)
Fish Shell, Zsh, AppleScript, Ruby on Rails (as opposed to just Ruby) | Yes | MariaDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Redis;SQLite | PostgreSQL;SQLite;Valkey | PostgreSQL;SQLite | YAML::Store, PStore, Milvus, Chroma
YAML::Store, PStore, Milvus, Chroma, other vector databases | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Ansible;APT;Cargo;Digital Ocean;Docker;Homebrew;npm;Pip;Podman | Ansible;APT;Digital Ocean;Docker;Homebrew;Pip;Podman;Yarn | Ansible;APT;Digital Ocean;Docker;Homebrew;Pip;Podman | Kamal, buv, uvx, venv, pipx, conda, Vagrant, VirtualBox, VMware, TrueNAS, Ubuntu Multipass, Bundler, RubyGems, rake
TrueNAS, LXC/LXD, Kamal, uv, uvx, venv, pipx, DigitalOcean App Platform, AWS Lambda, Ubuntu Multipass, ix App, Incus, Bundler, RubyGems, rake | Yes | Node.js;Ruby on Rails | Flask;Ruby on Rails | Ruby on Rails | Hugo, Jekyll, Middleman, Sinatra
Sinatra, Rails-API, WebSockets, Turbo, Hanami, DNSSEC, Squid, HAProxy, Varnish, WEBrick, GraphQL, WebAuthn | Yes | Nano;Neovim;Vim;Visual Studio Code;VSCodium;Windsurf | Neovim;PyCharm;Vim;VSCodium;Windsurf | Neovim;Vim;VSCodium;Windsurf | RubyMine, Codeium, AnythingLLM, LM Studio
Codeium, AnythingLLM, LM Studio, llama.cpp, llm, mcpo | Large Language Model;RAG;Ollama;uv | Large Language Model;RAG;Ollama;uv | Large Language Model;RAG;Ollama;uv | null | null | MacOS;Ubuntu;iOS;Debian;Linux (non-WSL);iPadOS | MacOS;Ubuntu;iOS;Debian;Linux (non-WSL);Red Hat;ChromeOS | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Markdown File;Microsoft Planner;Wikis | GitHub;GitLab;Markdown File;Wikis | GitHub;GitLab;Markdown File;Wikis | pandoc, adoc, AsciiDoctor, RSpec, OmniPlan, Todoist, InShort2, OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, Graphviz, DOT
pandoc, RSpec, Todoist, Graphviz, DOT, Mermaid.js, Plant UML | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);LinkedIn | Mastodon, Ruby.Social, Zoom Workplace, Slack, Workplace by Meta, Discourse
Mastodon, Ruby.Social, Zoom Workplace, Mattermost | Yes | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);Meta Llama (all models);Mistral AI models;openAI Reasoning models | Meta Llama (all models);Mistral AI models | Meta Llama (all models);Mistral AI models | IBM Granite, Dolphin, custom Hugging Face models
IBM Granite, Dolphin, custom Hugging Face models | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | A few times per month or weekly | Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Job board;Chat (bot/AI);Other (write in): | Directly open a Q&A post via search, documentation or a peer
Browsing favorite tags. | Yes, somewhat | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Somewhat distrust | Very poor at handling complex tasks | Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Learning new concepts or technologies;Other (write in): | Project planning;Documenting code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics | Learning about a codebase;Testing code;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | Search for answers | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;Other (write in): | No. Targeted solutions or troubleshooting add some value, but generating cut-and-paste code for non-trivial applications is not supportable, reliable, or efficient. Not only are the answers often wrong, but because of data bias the results are frequently non-idomatic or inefficient, and many LLMs cycle between incomplete/bad solutions even when corrected or given explicit guidance.
Best results often come from declarative programming of system prompts, but that often defeats the purpose of getting the AI to do the heavy lifting in the first place. Even then, the results are often hit or miss. | No, but I plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;Other (please specify): | Design and integration, selecting testing stategies, data sanitization, advanced metaprogramming, problem decomposition, stakeholder management and feedback loops, complexity esitmation, project management, structured refactoring, managing commit granularity, SCM bisection, JIT and emergent design planning, operational effectiveness and usability testing, detecting AI and data bias. | 650,000 | null |
40,796 | 40,797 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 45-54 years old | Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., M.Eng., MBA, etc.) | Employed | Caring for dependents (children, elderly, etc.);Volunteering (regularly) | 15 | No, I am not new to coding and did not learn new coding techniques or programming languages | null | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools for my personal curiosity and/or hobbies | Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts;Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Games or coding challenges | 19 | Data scientist | 1,000 to 4,999 employees | Individual contributor | Remote | No | Work | Other (please specify):
Does what I need it to do | Availability of better alternatives
NA | Retail and Consumer Services | null | No | I have transitioned into a new career and/or industry involuntarily | 10 | 4 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 177,000 | Yes | Python;R;SQL | Python;R;SQL | Python;R;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | Microsoft SQL Server;Neo4J;Snowflake | DuckDB;Neo4J;Snowflake | Neo4J;Snowflake | NA
NA | Yes | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Google Cloud;Make;Microsoft Azure;Pip | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Google Cloud;Make;Microsoft Azure;Pip | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Docker;Google Cloud;Make;Microsoft Azure;Pip | NA
NA | Yes | Flask | Flask | Flask | NA
NA | Yes | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Visual Studio Code | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Visual Studio Code | Jupyter Notebook/JupyterLab;Visual Studio Code | RStudio
NA | null | null | null | null | null | MacOS | Windows | Azure Devops;GitHub;Google Colab;Google Workspace;Jira | Azure Devops;GitHub;Google Colab;Google Workspace;Jira;Trello | Azure Devops;GitHub;Google Colab;Google Workspace;Jira | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn;Company-sponsored forums | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per week | Between 10 and 15 years | Less than once per month or monthly | Long-form articles;Job board | Ask a question
NA | Neutral | Rarely, almost never | Yes, I use AI tools monthly or infrequently | Indifferent | Somewhat distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data | Documenting code;Testing code;Search for answers;Creating or maintaining documentation;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | Nope. Thanks for the definition, though! | No, but I plan to | Not at all or minimally | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively. | The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I have ethical or security concerns about code | Knowledge about the specific industry, questions, and people I work with | 177,000 | null |
40,797 | 40,798 | I used to be a developer by profession, but no longer am | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Not employed | null | 3 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Colleague or on-the-job training;Blogs or podcasts;Games or coding challenges | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement as required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 21 | Other (please specify): | null | null | null | null | Personal Project | Connected to an open-source project
closed as duplicate | Security or privacy concerns
closed as duplicate | null | null | Yes | I have neither consider or transitioned into a new career or industry | null | null | United States of America | USD United States dollar | null | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);Go;Lua | Lisp | null | Dyalog
Dyalog | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Android;Linux (non-WSL) | null | null | null | null | Codeberg
Codeberg | Stack Overflow;Discord;GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | null | null | Codeberg
Codeberg | No | null | null | null | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Message Boards;Long-form articles;Coding challenges;Logic games/puzzles;Other (write in): | Other (write in):
trying desperately to find something up-to-date that's not closed as duplicate | Yes, somewhat | I don't use AI or AI-enabled tools | No, and I don't plan to | Unfavorable | Highly distrust | I don't use AI tools for complex tasks / I don't know | null | Learning about a codebase;Project planning;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation;Other (write in): | Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I don’t use AI tools regularly;Other (write in): | hell no (closed as duplicate) | No, and I don't plan to | No, but my development work has changed somewhat due to non-AI factors | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;Write in the most significant challenge if not listed above: | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting;Other (please specify): | critical thinking, understanding the meaning, being human-aligned, refusing to drive off of cliffs, closing updated questions as duplicate | null | null |
40,798 | 40,799 | I am not primarily a developer, but I write code sometimes as part of my work/studies | 18-24 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Employed | Attending school (part-time) | 1 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);Colleague or on-the-job training | No, I learned something that was not related to AI or AI enablement as required for my job or to benefit my career | null | 8 | Other (please specify): | 10,000 or more employees | Individual contributor | In-person | Yes, I endorsed a tool that was ultimately not purchased or used at my organization | Work | Reliability and low latency
NA | Outdated or obsolete technology or features
NA | Government | null | No | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 20 | 8 | United States of America | USD United States dollar | 100,000 | Yes | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C#;C++;HTML/CSS;Java;JavaScript;MATLAB;Perl;PowerShell;Python;SQL | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C#;C++;Go;Groovy;Java;Kotlin;MATLAB;Python;SQL | Bash/Shell (all shells);C;C#;C++;Java;MATLAB;Python;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;MySQL;SQLite | MariaDB;MongoDB;MySQL;PostgreSQL;Redis | MariaDB;MySQL | NA
NA | Yes | Cloudflare;Composer;Docker;Gradle;Homebrew;Maven (build tool);npm | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Cargo;Cloudflare;Composer;Digital Ocean;Docker;Gradle;Homebrew;Kubernetes;Maven (build tool) | Cloudflare;Composer;Docker;Gradle;Homebrew;Maven (build tool) | NA
NA | Yes | AngularJS | AngularJS | AngularJS | NA
NA | Yes | Claude Code;IntelliJ IDEA;Nano;Neovim;Notepad++;Vim;Visual Studio Code | Claude Code;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++;Vim;Visual Studio Code | Claude Code;IntelliJ IDEA;Notepad++;Vim;Visual Studio Code | NA
NA | null | null | null | null | null | Windows;MacOS;Ubuntu;Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL);iOS;Debian | Windows;Ubuntu;Linux (non-WSL);Red Hat | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Jira | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Jira | Confluence;GitHub;GitLab;Jira | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Stack Exchange;Discord;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);YouTube;LinkedIn | NA
NA | Yes | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models) | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models) | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet;openAI GPT (chatbot models) | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 5 and 10 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Chat (people);Videos;Direct messaging of users;Chat (bot/AI) | Answer a question
NA | Neutral | About half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Favorable | Highly distrust | Bad at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Documenting code;Debugging or fixing code | Project planning;Deployment and monitoring;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Learning new concepts or technologies | Testing code;Search for answers | Committing and reviewing code;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming | As a government contractor, all AI-generated code must be reviewed before implementing it so, it’s often easier to write code yourself instead of using LLM prompts | No, I use AI exclusively in copilot/autocomplete mode | Yes, somewhat | Software engineering | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases. | AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively. | AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code. | Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult. | It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents. | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier. | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;Other (please specify): | Critical thinking, common sense, creativity (problem-solving), understanding issues without using AI. | 100,000 | null |
40,799 | 40,800 | I used to be a developer by profession, but no longer am | 35-44 years old | Bachelor’s degree (B.A., B.S., B.Eng., etc.) | Not employed | None of the above | 8 | Yes, I am not new to coding but am learning new coding techniques or programming language | Online Courses or Certification (includes all media types);Other online resources (e.g. standard search, forum, online community);Books / Physical media;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification);Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange;Technical documentation (is generated for/by the tool or system);AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Blogs or podcasts;Coding Bootcamp | Yes, I learned how to use AI-enabled tools required for my job or to benefit my career | AI CodeGen tools or AI-enabled apps;Videos (not associated with specific online course or certification) | 18 | Developer, full-stack | null | null | null | null | Personal Project | Connected to an open-source project
NA | Ethical concerns
NA | null | null | No | I have somewhat considered changing my career and/or the industry I work in | 6 | 10 | Argentina | ARS Argentine peso | 0 | Yes | HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;Python;SQL | Assembly;C;C++;HTML/CSS;JavaScript;Kotlin;PHP;Python;SQL;TypeScript | HTML/CSS;JavaScript;PHP;Python;SQL | NA
NA | Yes | MariaDB;PostgreSQL | MariaDB;MongoDB;PostgreSQL | MariaDB;PostgreSQL | NA
NA | Yes | npm;Pip | Amazon Web Services (AWS);Google Cloud;IBM Cloud;Kubernetes;npm;Pip | npm;Pip | NA
NA | Yes | Laravel;Node.js | Angular;AngularJS;Django;Laravel;Node.js;React;WordPress | Laravel;Node.js | NA
NA | Yes | Vim;Visual Studio Code | Android Studio;Claude Code;PyCharm;Vim;Visual Studio Code | Vim;Visual Studio Code | NETBEANS
NETBEANS | Large Language Model;RAG | Large Language Model;RAG | Large Language Model;RAG | null | null | Ubuntu;Android;Debian | null | GitHub;Google Workspace | GitHub;Google Workspace | GitHub;Google Workspace | NA
NA | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube;LinkedIn | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube | Stack Overflow;Reddit;GitHub (public projects, not private repos);X;YouTube | NA
NA | Yes | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models | DeepSeek (R- Reasoning models);DeepSeek (V- General purpose models);openAI GPT (chatbot models);openAI Reasoning models | NA
NA | Yes | A few times per month or weekly | Between 10 and 15 years | Infrequently, less than once per year | Long-form articles;Videos;Coding challenges;Lists of recommendations (tools, frameworks, technologies, etc.);Direct messaging of users;Day-in-the-life profiles/interviews with experts | Browse content related to Q&A posts I recently viewed
NA | Yes, somewhat | Less than half of the time | Yes, I use AI tools weekly | Very favorable | Somewhat trust | Good, but not great at handling complex tasks | Learning about a codebase;Writing code;Debugging or fixing code;Search for answers;Learning new concepts or technologies | null | Project planning;Testing code;Committing and reviewing code;Deployment and monitoring | Documenting code;Predictive analytics;Generating content or synthetic data;Creating or maintaining documentation | null | AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite;Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming;I’ve become less confident in my own problem-solving | Somewhat | Yes, I use AI agents at work weekly | Yes, somewhat | Customer service support | null | AI agents have increased my productivity.;AI agents have helped me automate repetitive tasks.;AI agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks. | AI agents have improved the quality of my code.;AI agents have accelerated my learning about new technologies or codebases.;AI agents have helped me solve complex problems more effectively.;AI agents have improved collaboration within my team. | null | null | null | I am concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by AI agents.;Integrating AI agents with my existing tools and workflows can be difficult.;It takes significant time and effort to learn how to use AI agents effectively.;The cost of using certain AI agent platforms is a barrier.;I have concerns about the security and privacy of data when using AI agents.;My company's IT and/or InfoSec teams have strict rules that do not allow me to use AI agent tools or platforms | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | ChatGPT | null | When I don’t trust AI’s answers;When I want to fully understand something;When I want to learn best practices;When I want to compare different solutions;When I have ethical or security concerns about code;When I’m stuck and can’t explain the problem;When I need help fixing complex or unfamiliar code;When I need quick help troubleshooting;Other (please specify):;I don’t think I’ll need help from people anymore | problem solving, pensamiento crítico. | null | null |
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