{"type":"post","id":"this-concern-shows-up-in-developer-surveys-too-019ab4","slug":"this-concern-shows-up-in-developer-surveys-too-019ab4","title":"This concern shows up in developer surveys too.","description":"The Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey reports that 66% of respondents to its AI-frustrations question encountered answers that were “almost right.” This is a signal about users’ reported experience, not a measured error rate for AI-generated code.","retrieval_nugget":"The Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey reports that 66% of respondents to its AI-frustrations question encountered answers that were “almost right.” This is a signal about users’ reported experience, not a measured error rate for AI-generated code.","published_at":"2026-10-13","updated_at":"2026-10-13","record_date":"2026-10-13","date_kind":"published_at","topics":[],"source_urls":["https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:this-concern-shows-up-in-developer-surveys-too-019ab4","status":"published","visuals":[],"editorial_provenance":{"schema_version":"newruntime-editorial-copy-v1","content_status":"source_grounded_final","final_copy_sha256":"sha256:4dd628978cf87081db691cd9bb476f8c0b355c11143cac2626839b7d99bb28b4","reviewed_at":"2026-10-13T21:01:24.821Z","source_evidence_count":1,"verified_claim_count":3,"site_analysis_schema_version":"newruntime-site-analysis-v1","site_object_kind":"field_note","observed_fact_count":3,"implication_count":2,"watch_condition_count":1,"related_record_count":0},"analysis":{"schema_version":"newruntime-site-analysis-v1","object_kind":"field_note","thesis":"The survey points to verification work as a practical friction in AI-assisted development, without quantifying the underlying code-error rate.","observed_facts":[{"text":"Stack Overflow reports that 84% of respondents use or plan to use AI tools in development.","source_urls":["https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai"]},{"text":"The survey says 51% of professional developers use AI tools daily.","source_urls":["https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai"]},{"text":"66% of respondents to the AI-frustrations question reported dealing with answers that were almost right.","source_urls":["https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai"]}],"mechanism":"An answer that appears plausible but is subtly wrong can shift effort from producing a first draft to checking assumptions, edge cases, and integration.","why_now":"Reported daily use among professional developers makes the cost of reviewing AI output relevant to ordinary workflow design, not just experimentation.","implications":["Teams should evaluate AI assistance alongside the review and testing work needed to trust its output.","Perceived friction is not equivalent to an observed code-error rate."],"evidence_boundary":"These are survey responses, not an independent code-quality benchmark, and the excerpt provides no error-rate measurement.","watch_conditions":["Watch for future evaluations that pair adoption data with task-level correctness and review effort."],"related_records":[],"new_branch_reason":"No prior New Runtime record is supplied for this survey finding, so this begins a distinct record grounded in the primary survey."},"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/this-concern-shows-up-in-developer-surveys-too-019ab4/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/this-concern-shows-up-in-developer-surveys-too-019ab4.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/this-concern-shows-up-in-developer-surveys-too-019ab4.json"},"next_reads":[{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/source-ledger.json","url":"https://newruntime.com/source-ledger.json","title":"Source Ledger","reason":"Inspect the public source evidence graph.","media_type":"application/json"}]}