Share of developers using AI to write half or more of their code rises from 12% to 42% in a year
The share of developers who write half or more of their code with AI jumped from 12% to 42% year on year, according to the latest BairesDev survey. The results were published on 15 September.
Who is affected and how
- senior developer
- When half the code comes from AI, review becomes the main value-creating task.
- tech lead
- Review capacity and coding guidelines need to be sized to the share of AI-generated code.
- CTO
- The industry figure lets a team compare its level of AI use with the market average.
Sources
- The share of developers using AI to write half or more code jumped from 12% to 42% YOY in latest BairesDev surveyventurebeat · Sep 15, 2026
- AI writes half the code, but developers struggle to review it alltechzine global · Sep 15, 2026
- AI writes half the code, but developers struggle to review it all - Techzine Globaltechzine.eu · Sep 15, 2026
- Not One Hour Came Back: AI Now Writes Half the Code for 42% of Developerswebpronews.com · Sep 17, 2026
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