Can't believe I missed this one -- it has been up for a while now: For those who like to take these yearly surveys; the 2025 Developer Survey | Stack Overflow is up.
Be prepared to answer a lot of questions about AI/LLM's.
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This one got so annoying and repetitive that at one point I started regretting filling it out this year. It must have been half the survey, which felt longer to finish (probably because it was such a joyless endeavour) than the years prior.
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Thanks for the warning. I'll skip this one then, thank you very much!
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With the platform itself growing steadily irrelevant by the day, can't help but wonder how meaningful the results are going to be. How many of the people who (still) use SO on a regular basis will be keen on sitting through the whole thing? How well the preferences / answers / biases of those will match those of everybody else: including the folks who'd much rather keep on copy-pasting/vibe-coding/agent-izing via their favourite <X>GPT of the day than to complete this?
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Indeed. I used to value SO's surveys, but I'm not sure they're on the right track any more.
I saw someone on Stack Exchange quip "It looks like this survey was generated by an AI that has a vested interested in its own self-preservation".
I eventually finished it, but it was just out of spite and sunk-cost fallacy. Had I known how bad it would be, I wouldn't have bothered.
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Same. I completed it but, had I known the questions in advance, I wouldn't have taken the time. It might still be interesting to see the outcome related to programming languages and frameworks, though.
Either I forgot or missed that item last year, but it's as I suspected: the partnership with OpenAI
must be one good motive for the biased content.
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I no longer fill this thing out because I feel that SO users do not reflect a sufficiently diverse or generic programming population so as to be able to infer anything useful from the aggregate responses.
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I took the survey. It seemed very biased towards AI and LLMs. It was rather disappointing.
And it took me around 30 minutes to complete.
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