--- title: A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey... description: Stack Overflow's Developer Survey retrospective compares 2024 and 2025 data across AI adoption, work habits, and community trends. AI tool usage rose from 62%... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-look-back-before-we-look-forward-a-developer-survey-retrospective-73yh1xkv0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective | daily.dev og:description: Stack Overflow's Developer Survey retrospective compares 2024 and 2025 data across AI adoption, work habits, and community trends. AI tool usage rose from 62%... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-look-back-before-we-look-forward-a-developer-survey-retrospective-73yh1xkv0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/73Yh1xKv0.png og:image:alt: A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective **[Stack Overflow Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/stackov)** · 13 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Stack Overflow's Developer Survey retrospective compares 2024 and 2025 data across AI adoption, work habits, and community trends. AI tool usage rose from 62% to 79% between 2024 and 2025, with agent adoption jumping from 31% to 59% in an April 2026 pulse survey, yet enthusiasm cooled: favorable sentiment among learners fell from 72.2% to 52.8%. Remote work flexibility nuances, tool stack trends (Docker, Kubernetes, Cursor, Claude Code), job satisfaction by country, and compensation shifts across roles are also covered, setting up questions for the upcoming 2026 survey. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of developers were using AI agents in 2025 versus the 2026 pulse survey? AI agent usage among developers rose from 31% in the 2025 Developer Survey to 59% in an April 2026 pulse survey, nearly doubling in less than a year. Claude Code usage among agent users also grew, from 41% to 55%, while ChatGPT (82%) and GitHub Copilot (68%) remained the most common out-of-the-box AI assistants in 2025. _Anyone tracking how fast agentic coding tools are being adopted can follow updates like this on daily.dev._ ### How has AI sentiment among students learning to code changed between 2024 and 2025? Favorable sentiment toward AI tools among students learning to code dropped from 72.2% in 2024 to 52.8% in 2025, even though usage climbed from 63.0% to 73.3% over the same period. Skepticism quadrupled from 6.4% to 26.3%, and confidence in AI output accuracy fell from 49.1% to 37.4%, suggesting growing pragmatic scrutiny despite rising adoption. _Developers weighing how much to trust AI while learning can compare experiences like these through daily.dev._ ### How did remote work arrangements change between 2024 and 2025 according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey? Fully remote work dropped from 38.0% in 2024 to 32.4% in 2025, while hybrid arrangements split into more granular categories (37.1% combined) and on-site work fell slightly to 17.9%. The United States led fully remote participation at 45.0%, India had the highest on-site share at 30.5%, and total respondents with some remote flexibility rose slightly to 82% in 2025 versus 80% in 2024. _Teams debating remote versus hybrid policy can track shifting workplace data like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings](https://daily.dev/posts/getting-ready-for-2026-results-a-look-back-on-developer-survey-findings-nfkgnbed1) · Stack Overflow Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Are developers happy yet? 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