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 (%)
| Trust level | Share of respondents (%) |
|---|---|
| Highly trust | 3.1% |
| Somewhat trust | 29.6% |
| Somewhat distrust | 26.1% |
| Highly distrust | 19.6% |
- 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.




