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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 (Category Management)

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The results were recently published. 15Go annual survey Developers who have passed 49k developers. The survey was conducted with 29 May 23 June 2025 yearly 62 question 314 different technologies. For the first time, the study focused on AI agents and large language models. (LLM) and community platforms. When it comes to interesting results, they are

Technology trends Python shows explosive growth in popularity with an increase in popularity 7 percentage points compared to 2024 This is due to its dominance in AI, data science and backend development. Docker showed record growth with an increase in 17 This is the largest annual increase of any technology in the survey.

  • Cargo (packet manager Rust) Became the most popular cloud development and infrastructure tool with an admiration rating (admire) 71% Professional changes
  • 24% of developers are happy with their current job 20% last year
  • The role of the architect is in the top--4 Most Popular Role Developers (This role was introduced only this year.)
  • 45Percentage of developers working remotely in the U.S. – highest among leading countries by number of respondents Changes to Stack Overflow
  • 81Percentage of developers have a Stack Overflow account (growth 76percent 2024 year)
  • 35% of visits are related to AI problems – the platform becomes a source of human-proven knowledge in the AI era Trends in AI The use of AI tools has grown with 76percentage 84Percentage per year and positive attitudes have dropped 72percentage 60Confidence in AI has also fallen. 43percentage 33%
  • 66Percentage of developers say AI solutions that are “almost right, but not quite right” are the main frustrations. This creates a new kind of technical debt where the code looks correct but contains subtle errors. Experienced developers are more cautious about AI than younger developers. AI agents remain niche agents. 52% of developers do not use AI agents or stick to simpler AI tools

In general, the StackOverflow survey allows you to see trends in development, which are now about the same. 1. Maturing the AI Development Ecosystem There is a transition from initial enthusiasm to a realistic assessment of the capabilities of AI. Developers are becoming more selective in using AI tools. As the quality of AI tools grows, trust will grow and AI tools will be integrated into specific scenarios in software development. (about as told Report on the integration of AI into the development processes of a large company) 2. The popularity of Python will continue to grow. (Because of AI, ML, and datascience.). Typescript will continue to squeeze the share of vanilla JS, Rust may become more popular 3. Containerization is the de facto standard, docker in every home:) 4. StackOverflow will no longer be for humans, but a source of truth for AI agents, as well as a place to validate AI suggests

If we talk about the methodology of the survey and its limitations, we have 1. Sample displacement (Selection Bias) The survey attracts mostly active users of Stack Overflow, which creates distortions. 2. Reduced representation There are theses that many developers have switched from stackoveflow to Gen AI tools, and young cohorts have not appeared - AI-critical users could be over-represented 3. AI-centricity of the survey 2025 year The design of the survey contained many questions about AI and some of them were biased. (techno-optimistic)

In any case, this large-scale survey contains a lot of food for thought, just eat it carefully.

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