AI Coding Speed Kills

The numbers paint a picture of paradox. According to the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools in their development process. Yet in that same survey, more developers actively distrust the accuracy of AI tools (46%) than trust them (33%). Only a fraction, just 3%, report highly trusting AI output. The most experienced developers show even deeper scepticism, with senior engineers recording the lowest “highly trust” rate at 2.6% and the highest “hig