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Share of professional software developers using AI tools

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What you should know about this indicator

  • This indicator shows how professional developers responded to a question about AI tool usage in the annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey.
  • Respondents are self-selected professional developers who chose to participate in the survey. Results may not be representative of all developers worldwide.
  • In 2025, Stack Overflow changed the question to ask about usage frequency (daily, weekly, or monthly/infrequently) rather than a simple yes/no. We collapse these into a "Yes" value for cross-year comparability.
  • The number of respondents per year ranges from 26,004 to 67,237.
Share of professional software developers using AI tools
Share of positive responses among professional developers to the question, "Do you currently use AI tools in your development process?".
Source
Stack Overflow (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
February 5, 2026
Next expected update
February 2027
Date range
2020–2025
Unit
%

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Stack Overflow – Stack Overflow Developer Survey – AI Tool Usage

Share of professional developers who use AI tools in their development process, based on the annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey (2023–2025). The 2025 survey changed the question to include usage frequency (daily, weekly, monthly or infrequently).

Retrieved on
February 5, 2026
Retrieved from
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey, https://survey.stackoverflow.co/

Share of professional developers who use AI tools in their development process, based on the annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey (2023–2025). The 2025 survey changed the question to include usage frequency (daily, weekly, monthly or infrequently).

Retrieved on
February 5, 2026
Retrieved from
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey, https://survey.stackoverflow.co/

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We set the baseline at 0% in 2020, as the first mainstream AI coding assistants were not available to developers until 2021.

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Stack Overflow (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Share of professional software developers using AI tools” [dataset]. Stack Overflow, “Stack Overflow Developer Survey – AI Tool Usage” [original data]. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260304-094028/grapher/share-of-professional-software-developers-using-ai-tools.html (archived on March 4, 2026).

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