{"id": 1146598, "name": "Share of professional software developers using AI tools", "unit": "%", "createdAt": "2026-02-09T08:20:11.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-02-09T18:21:19.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2020-2025", "datasetId": 7355, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "yes_overall", "catalogPath": "grapher/artificial_intelligence/2026-02-05/stackoverflow_ai_usage/stackoverflow_ai_usage#yes_overall", "descriptionShort": "Share of positive responses among professional developers to the question, \"Do you currently use AI tools in your development process?\".", "descriptionProcessing": "We set the baseline at 0% in 2020, as the first mainstream AI coding assistants were not available to developers until 2021.", "type": "float", "grapherConfigIdETL": "019c417c-9e52-7ff5-bd32-b7dc5253b2c4", "dataChecksum": "11432205786046512689", "metadataChecksum": "5379889919557949514", "datasetName": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey \u2013 AI Tool Usage", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-02-05", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%", "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Artificial Intelligence"]}, "descriptionKey": ["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."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2020}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 2025}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 12478, "title": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey \u2013 AI Tool Usage", "description": "Share of professional developers who use AI tools in their development process,\nbased on the annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey (2023\u20132025). The 2025 survey\nchanged the question to include usage frequency (daily, weekly, monthly or infrequently).", "producer": "Stack Overflow", "citationFull": "Stack Overflow Developer Survey, https://survey.stackoverflow.co/", "attributionShort": "Stack Overflow", "urlMain": "https://survey.stackoverflow.co/", "dateAccessed": "2026-02-05", "datePublished": "2025", "license": {"name": "Public domain"}}]}