Industry surveyStack Overflow, 2025
Positive feeling toward AI tools fell to 59.7% overall
Buyer behaviour
Favorability ratings on using AI tools in development workflow, all respondents (%)
| Sentiment level | Share of respondents (%) |
|---|---|
| Very favorable | 22.9% |
| Favorable | 36.8% |
| Indifferent | 17.6% |
| Unsure | 2.3% |
| Unfavorable | 10.8% |
| Very unfavorable | 9.6% |
- Reader Note:
- The base for this chart is 33,412 respondents. The chart asks, "How favorable is your stance on using AI tools as part of your development workflow?" The positive total comes from adding Very favorable (22.9%) and Favorable (36.8%) to 59.7%, which the source rounds to 60%. The source also says this is down from 70%+ in 2023 and 2024, but it does not give the bases for those earlier figures. 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.




