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That is NOT what that says. It says 47% of STACK OVERFLOW RESPONDENTS REPORT using AI. That does not represent 47% of devs.
If you go to 4chan and poll of chuds, you're going to get a high percentage of respondents affirming your query. You went to stackoverflow and asked about AI. Think about the user base.
thanks but i felt like that’d be obvious from the URL lol. the SO survey is probably the largest sample size we have for this…
…that isn’t outright from an AI company (not that SO doesn’t have AI but they’re still an answers company as opposed to, say, Cursor AI whose main selling point is the AI. even Zed, the company behind the blog linked in the post, has a much higher emphasis on AI) and their sample should be pretty close to all online devs, maybe slightly exclusionary of very experienced ones. SO’s evangelist proportion is not even close to 4chan’s chud proportion; not sure why had the impression needed to name that comparison.
it’s not like Codidact has a dev survey and even if they had one they’d have as much bias as this comment section