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Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here
(stackoverflow.blog)
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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Many companies are tying monitored AI usage to performance evaluations. So yeah, we’re going to be ”willing” under that pretext.
Finding one senior dev who is willing to debug a multi-thousand line application produced by genAI…they’re going to be reluctant, at best, because the code is slop.
MBAs and C-suites keep trying to manufacture consent for this tech so their stock portfolios outperform, and the madmen are willing to sacrifice your jobs to do it!
A reason to look somewhere else. Not out of protest but because their evaluations process (and likely more) is fucked. You should do that all 2 - 3 years anyway.
The just sounds like good old fashioned mismanagement. Any examples of successful companies that are doing this?
Salesforce definitely does it. Coinbase also recently fired a bunch of devs for not using it (https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/coinbase-ceo-explains-why-he-fired-engineers-who-didnt-try-ai-immediately/)