Share of professional software developers using AI tools
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.
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.
Sources and processing
This data is based on the following sources
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Notes on our processing step for this indicator
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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Citations
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“Data Page: Share of professional software developers using AI tools”, part of the following publication: Charlie Giattino, Edouard Mathieu, Veronika Samborska, and Max Roser (2023) - “Artificial Intelligence”. Data adapted from Stack Overflow. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260209-182939/grapher/share-of-professional-software-developers-using-ai-tools.html [online resource] (archived on February 9, 2026).How to cite this data
In-line citationIf you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:
Stack Overflow (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in DataFull citation
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 February 12, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260209-182939/grapher/share-of-professional-software-developers-using-ai-tools.html (archived on February 9, 2026).