Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results

Stack Overflow's 2026 Annual Developer Survey found that AI coding assistants are used daily by an overwhelming share of developers despite lingering trust issues, according to Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow. Yepis told host Ryan that well-organized documentation plays a critical role in supplying verifiable context to mitigate AI hallucinations, and that developers are shifting away from active community posting toward passive knowledge consumption.

Ryan chats with Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, about the results from this year’s Annual Developer Survey, including the overwhelming daily usage of AI coding assistants despite lingering developer trust issues, the critical role of well-organized documentation in providing verifiable context to mitigate AI hallucinations, and the evolving ways developers are shifting away from active community posting in favor of passive knowledge consumption.