Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too
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Most software engineers now use AI for most of their code and fear the existential threat
A "state of Web Dev AI" survey shows that nearlyhalf of web developers worry AI will displace their jobs, with one stating "it will be devastating to our sector."
The surveyof 7,258 developers is the second on this topic to be conducted by Devographics,home of other surveys including State of JavaScript and State of CSS.
There arebig changes since the first in early 2025, when the majorityof respondents used AI to create less than 25 percent of their code, whereastoday 63 percent of devs use AI to generate more than half their code.Over a quarter of respondents (27 percent) use AI for 90 percent or more oftheir code.
Code generation is the top AI use case, followed by code review, research, and debugging.
The researchers gathered respondents from those who hadcompleted...
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