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Hannah Henderson retweeted
“98% of surveyed developers use AI coding tools several times a week.”
Announcing the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, a study of AI software tool adoption, proficiency, and transformation among professional software developers globally. Key findings:
𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 98% of surveyed developers use AI coding tools several times a week. That being said, there is still some resistance among senior developers with them reporting less adoption.
𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀: There is strong adoption with “explain this” workflows, debugging, test generation, document generation, UI development, and code review. Security use cases however trail behind.
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲: These two have emerged as the coding platform category winners, though many developers are experimenting with other tools. Dedicated code review platforms still aren’t as widely adopted.
𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀: Frontend use cases are seeing the largest productivity gains. However in other software categories like infrastructure, mobile, and design the gains are not as widely perceived.
𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵: Developers are mostly happy with their AI coding tool setups though satisfaction levels drop at larger companies.
𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱: Hallucination and lack of customization are reported as some of the biggest AI software failure modes. Of additional note, developers say context switching among tasks has become worse with AI coding.
Full link to report: stateof.themodernsoftware.de…
Hannah Henderson retweeted
After getting fired from ungrateful AWS after outage where my job was to vibecode all the DNS entries to IPv6, happy to announce it's my 1st day at Azure
Azure recognizes the value of vibecoding IPv6 DNS and I just force pushed my first 1m entries
Now off to grab some coffee
Hannah Henderson retweeted
if you want to preview the future join a coding agent company
first the coding agents built or bought IDEs and CLIs
then the chat bots built or bought AI browsers
intuitively makes sense because ai engineers can validate their own needs first before they serve the commonfolk
as the kode goes, so goes the future
now extend this to "organizing the world's information" and you'll see what's next
Hannah Henderson retweeted
AI Agents turn everyone into a manager. We thought the future of software was AI reviewing and editing our work. But in fact the opposite is true. The future of software is to kick off tasks to AI Agents and review, edit, and orchestrate their work.
Hannah Henderson retweeted
People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated
Hannah Henderson retweeted
Your software engineering skills don't become obsolete with AI.
In fact, they become amplified with it.
Less memorization, more code, more value.
Hannah Henderson retweeted
I’ve started joining every Google Meet 30 seconds early.
When you join early, everyone’s virtual note takers join early too.
I spend the first few seconds screaming about how I’m on the Titanic, we’ve just hit an iceberg, the end is near, and I need immediate assistance.
I then do the rest of the meeting normally.
When the meeting ends, everyone gets an emailed transcript where the AI summary is:
“Chris hit an iceberg, is trapped on a sinking ship, and general Q2 pricing updates”
Hannah Henderson retweeted
Here are some reflections from 2025 so far on AI, infra, databases, and security. I’ve spoken with over 20 people building, using, or buying AI applications. Curious to discuss this more! 🧵
Hannah Henderson retweeted
Waymo is executing a textbook pincer movement against SFO
Exciting news: @Waymo is beginning public service on the Peninsula, starting with Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Los Altos! Initial service area below.
