84% of Developers Use AI. Most of Them Are Still Doing It Wrong.

Eighty four percent sounds like a movement. Stack Overflow’s 2024 Developer Survey found that 84% of developers either use or plan to use AI tools in their workflow, and the industry took it as confirmation that the adoption wave had arrived. It hadn’t. What arrived was familiarity with the tools, and familiarity is not the same thing as capability to b…