State of AI: The 2025 Developer Survey by Stack Overflow

Join us as we dive deep into the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, the definitive report on the state of software development. With over 49,000+ responses from 177 countries, this annual survey provides a crucial snapshot into the needs, tools, and technologies shaping the global developer community.In this episode, we'll explore:The Evolving AI Landscape:Discover how developers are exploring new AI agent tools, Large Language Models (LLMs), and community platforms.While a majority of developers (52%) either don't use AI agents or stick to simpler AI tools, and 38% have no plans to adopt them, an impressive 84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in their development process, an increase from last year.Learn about the shifts in sentiment: positive sentiment for AI tools has decreased in 2025 to just 60% (from over 70% in 2023 and 2024).Crucially, more developers actively distrust the accuracy of AI tools (46%) than trust it (33%), with only a fraction (3%) reporting "highly trusting" the output.Understand the biggest frustrations, cited by 66% of developers, which is dealing with "AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite", often leading to the second-biggest frustration: "Debugging AI-generated code is more time-consuming" (45%).Despite these challenges, we'll highlight that approximately 70% of AI agent users agree that agents have reduced the time spent on specific development tasks, and 69% agree they have increased productivity.Many respondents (over 36%) have also learned how to use AI-enabled tools for their job or to advance their career in the last year.Furthermore, find out why Stack Overflow is becoming a new resource for developers who need to solve AI-related issues, with about 35% of visits being a result of such problems.Top Technologies & Developer Preferences:Unpack why Cargo, Rust's build tool and package manager, is the most admired (71%) cloud development and infrastructure tool this year.Discover uv, a Python package manager built in Rust, as the most admired (74%) Stack Overflow tag technology.Explore the continued dominance of OpenAI's GPT models, with 82% of developers indicating they used them for development work in the past year, and why Anthropic's Claude Sonnet is the most admired LLM this year.Understand the significant acceleration of Python's adoption, with a 7 percentage point increase from 2024 to 2025, solidifying its role as the go-to language for AI, data science, and back-end development.Learn why Visual Studio Code (75.9%) and Visual Studio (29%) maintained their top spots for developer environments for the fourth year.See how GitHub has stepped up as a more desired collaboration tool than Jira this year.Delve into the top three reasons developers turn their back on a technology: security or privacy concerns, prohibitive pricing, and the availability of better alternatives.Developer Profiles & Work Environments:Gain insights into the global developer community, with the United States of America (20.4%), Germany (8.6%), and India (7.2%) as the top countries responding to this year's survey.We'll cover work preferences, with nearly one third of developers (32.4%) working remotely this year, and the US having the highest number of remote developers (45%) among top-reporting countries.Understand that most developers (65%) have been coding for 10 or more years.significantly higher interest in more social and interactive content formats like "Chat (people)" and "Coding challenges," aligning with a motivation to skill up. And note that Stack Overflow remains a frequent destination, with 82% visiting at least a few times per month. Learners also use YouTube for community more than professional developers.Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of the forces shaping the world of software development!