Comment by WolfeReader
4 days ago
The current adoption of LLMs by developers seems to be a bit more than 20%.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/06/about-1-i...
This is just for professional jobs (and is 9 months old) of course.
4 days ago
The current adoption of LLMs by developers seems to be a bit more than 20%.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/06/about-1-i...
This is just for professional jobs (and is 9 months old) of course.
That's an incredible rate of adoption given that this stuff has only been really usable for the past year or so.
It sure is! But I guess it would be less fun to say "1 out of 5 developers will not be using Codeberg going forward". Especially since that may well be an intended effect of Codeberg's decision here.
As long as AI is a source of environmental damage, cognitive harm, and a cause of rising hardware costs, there will always be a sizeable set of developers who want nothing to do with it. The headline should be "AI Divides".
There's no basis for thinking that LLM use will not continue to grow going forward. The fact that 1 in 5 developers already use this technology only a year or so after it's become really useful shows that adoption is growing rapidly.
Meanwhile, the arguments regarding environmental damage and cognitive harm are rather spurious. You can already run models like Qwen 3.6 27b on your laptop today, and it can do serious work. And the efficiency of the models only keeps improving. Meanwhile, studies showing cognitive effects you allude to have used laughably small samples, and these same types of arguments were made every time the way people work with code changed. I'm old enough to remember people screeching how you weren't a real programmer if you didn't use assembly, or that GC was ruining programming.
There's always a group of people who made a certain set of skills their whole identity who get really upset when those skill become automated. There will always be a sizeable set of current generation of developers who will want nothing to do with it, but people getting into development today will treat LLMs as a part of their regular toolkit. At the end of the day it's just a tool like any other.