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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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I'm a slow adopter of new technologies like ~~AI~~ LLMs. My reasoning is that if it turns out to actually be a good product, then it will eventually prove itself, and the early adopters can be the "beta testers" so to speak. But if it turns out to be a bad product, then I won't have wasted my time on something that isn't worthwhile.
Maybe a day comes when I start using these tools, but they clearly just aren't all that useful in their current form. In all honesty, I'm pretty sure that they will never be useful enough for me to consider them worth learning, but definitely not so today.
They talk like there's training needed, that it's some learned skill. It's just a means to blame the worker instead of the AI for not boosting productivity.
Yeah if anything all the people screeching that you have to adopt now or you'll be replaced by those that do just destroy their credibility.
Agreed. To make it a bit more general, whenever I see people claiming to be able to predict the future with absolute certainty and confidence, that to me is just a sign they are idiots and shouldn't be listened to. Definitely had a lot of those in past companies I have worked in. A lot of the time, they're trying to gaslight people into believing in their version of the future so they can sell us garbage (products, stock price, etc.). They'll always get some fools to believe them of course.
I'm interested to see in 5 years or so, once all the hyper-hype is hopefully subsides, what actual uses remain and how they look.