Most organizations use AI in dev, the question now is how to use it properly, claims report

Google Cloud's 2025 DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) report is out, claiming that since 90 percent of respondents now make some use of AI for software development, the question is not whether to adopt it but how to realize its value.

The research is based on nearly 5,000 survey responses from IT professionals, interpreted by the DORA team. The DORA research project is long-standing with annual reports since 2014, acquired by Google in December 2018. 

The highest use of AI is for writing new code (71 percent of developers), and the most common interaction with AI is via chatbots (among all users, not all of whom are coders), followed by IDEs (integrated development environments). Use of agent mode, where AI makes changes autonomously, is less common, with 61 percent saying they never do this and only 17 percent doing so once a day or more often.