Lawrence Hecht

78% of this year's Stack Overflow developer survey use AI tools in the development process, up from 62% last year. We look at the key stats.

AI-specific jobs are on the upswing, according to a new survey of tech talent by the Linux Foundation. 

While nearly seven out of 10 developers surveyed use AI tools to write or tweak code each week, many still report hallucinations and other challenges.

Observability and monitoring — not security — is the most cited challenge when moving ML models into production, according to a new survey.

Use of cloud environments has jumped among those who deploy AI models for data science, machine learning or artificial intelligence jobs.

Forty percent of managers in JetBrains' latest survey said their organizations measure neither developer productivity nor developer experience.

The New Stack reached out to more than 120 industry experts about some of the hottest topics in software development. Here's what they had to say.

The New Stack reported on a variety of survey-based research in 2024. Here are the takeaways most relevant to you as you plan for 2025.

New Relic and Splunk announced new AI-based capabilities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, while OpenTelemetry prepares to come to mainframes.

Readers of The New Stack said they want to read more about coding languages, APIs and DevOps in 2025, according to our 8th annual survey.

Forty-four percent of participants in a new study by Rafay Systems said they believe the notion that shared services are too inflexible will be their biggest platform engineering challenge this year.

Only 12% of developers in the annual survey fear AI will take their jobs. Meanwhile, the median salary for full-stack devs fell 11% since 2023.

Fifty-nine percent of IT leaders said they saw more incidents that affected customers than in the previous year. Even more, 69%, said their organization is not investing in reducing such incidents.

Two out of three of participants in Jellyfish’s new survey said they experienced burnout in the last 12 months. One of three managers in a LeadDev report are working longer hours now.

Platform engineering appears to ease some of the pain points associated with using Kubernetes in production, says a new survey by Spectro Cloud.

Fifty-one percent of IT leaders in a new survey by Confluent called data streaming technology a top strategic priority for 2024, ahead of AI.

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