Not One Hour Came Back: AI Now Writes Half the Code for 42% of Developers
A BairesDev survey of 705 developers finds 42% now let AI write half their code, up from 12% a year ago. Thirteen hours saved weekly disappeared into review and debugging. Seventy-eight percent of CTOs raised spending on quality checks as engineers became the last line of accountability.
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