Study: Developers are addicted to AI, and managers are making it worse

AI is addictive, and managers are rewarding those who use it the most (even though they are shipping stuff they don’t understand). What a tangled mess. Let’s unpack findings from the AI Coding Addiction Report , what it says about the wayward use of AI coding tools, and how behavior differs based on whether you use Claude Code, Google Gemini, OpenAI Codex, or GitHub Copilot. The survey targeted developers who use AI at least once a week, and the report is based on over 300 responses from developers of varying seniority levels and using different tools. Animal mistreatment, applied to humans A...

Source: The New Stack

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