Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment

Nearly a third of developers who use AI daily spend four hours or more of their working day with it, according to Stack Overflow's latest survey. The survey received 30,903 responses from developers and technologists across 169 countries. Among the 10,926 daily AI users who answered the time-use question, about 80 percent reported using the tools for at least an hour a day. The research by developer Q&A site Stack Overflow also found skepticism from developers toward using AI in their roles. Only about 7 percent of developers said they trusted AI output for important work decisions, while 48 percent trusted it when they could easily verify the output. Seventy-nine percent considered source attribution important or very important when deciding whether to trust an AI-generated technical answer. Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar said developers were highly skeptical as a group. "As AI agents become rapidly more autonomous, that skepticism now acts as a critical safeguard. …