Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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.Episode notes:Check out the full 2026 Developer Survey results.Connect with Erin on LinkedIn and read her past articles on the Stack Overflow blog.Congrats to Stellar Question badge winner Franck Freiburger for winning the badge on their question Biggest integer that can be stored in a double.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.

Episode notes:

Check out the full 2026 Developer Survey results.

Connect with Erin on LinkedIn and read her past articles on the Stack Overflow blog.

Congrats to Stellar Question badge winner Franck Freiburger for winning the badge on their question Biggest integer that can be stored in a double.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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