Best of 2025: Survey: AI Tools Are Increasing Amount Of Bad Code Needing To Be Fixed
devops.com, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
A survey of 500 software engineering leaders and practitioners published this week finds that while nearly all (95%+) believe artificial intelligence tools can reduce burnout well over half (59%) report AI tools at least half the time are creating deployment errors in their code.
As a result, more than two-thirds (67%) said they spend more time debugging AI-generated code, with 68% also noting they are now spending more time resolving AI-related security vulnerabilities. A full 92% of respondents also noted that AI tools are increasing the blast radius of the amount of bad code that needs to be debugged.