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Industry surveyStack Overflow, 2025

More developers distrust AI output than trust it, and only 3.1% highly trust it

Buyer behaviour



Developer trust levels in AI coding tool output accuracy (%)

Developer trust levels in AI coding tool output accuracy (%)
Trust levelShare of respondents (%)
Highly trust3.1%
Somewhat trust29.6%
Somewhat distrust26.1%
Highly distrust19.6%
Reader Note:
Figure base is 33,244 respondents. The chart asks, "How much do you trust the accuracy of the output from AI tools as part of your development workflow?" The source text summarizes combined distrust as 46% and combined trust as 33%, while the chart lists 3.1% highly trust, 29.6% somewhat trust, 26.1% somewhat distrust, and 19.6% highly distrust. The report does not say when the survey ran.
Evidence:
Self-reported behaviour
Vendor interest:
Moderate — This comes from a company with a commercial interest in this market, so it is not a neutral source.
Sample:
Survey respondents on Stack Overflow; most charts show roughly 26,000 to 34,000 responses, with smaller subsets for AI agent users and specific follow-up questions.

Good for

A rough sense of size and direction, and deciding what to look at first.

Not for

  • Exact numbers, or saying that one thing caused another.
  • This comes from a company with a commercial interest in this market, so it is not a neutral source.
  • The source never says when this data was collected. It could be considerably older than the publication date suggests.

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