Survey Surfaces Wide Generative AI Adoption Among Software Engineers
devops.com, Thursday, July 25th, 2024
A survey of 509 software engineers finds nearly three-quarters (72%) are leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities somewhere in a software development process, with nearly half (48%) reporting they use these tools every day.
Conducted by BairesDev, a provider of application development outsourcing services, the survey finds the most widely used tools are ChatGPT (54%), GitHub Copilot (30%), Microsoft Copilot (17%) and Google Gemini (12%).
While 81% are using generative AI tools to write code and 67% to create documentation, the survey finds only a total of 40% said they do not believe these tools and capabilities have freed up time for them to accomplish other tasks.