The Stack Overflow Podcast What leaders need to know from the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
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Oct 23, 2025 Natalie Rotnov, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Stack Overflow, dives into the insights from the 2025 Developer Survey. She highlights a decline in developer trust towards AI due to frustrations over nearly accurate outputs and time spent debugging. The importance of community validation is emphasized, as 80% of developers still rely on platforms like Stack Overflow. Natalie advises leaders to foster collaborative knowledge-sharing spaces and leverage Retrieval-Augmented Generation to streamline developer workflows amid pervasive tool sprawl.
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Trust In AI Is Falling
- Developers' trust in AI is declining because models are 'almost right, but not quite.'
- Natalie links this to immature reasoning models and real-world debugging pain.
Almost-Right Outputs Create Extra Work
- Top frustrations are AI outputs that are nearly correct and time-consuming debugging of AI-generated code.
- These issues drive developers to prefer human validation for tricky problems.
Community Validation Remains Essential
- Over 80% of developers still visit Stack Overflow regularly and 75% want another person when they distrust AI.
- The number of advanced questions on Stack Overflow has doubled since 2023, showing AI limits.