We're opening the call for responses for our next State of Code developer survey, and we want to hear from you.
Last year, more than 1,100 professionals told us what AI coding actually looks like day to day. Your answers surfaced findings that shaped an industry conversation: 42% of committed code was AI-generated, only 48% of software developers always verified AI output before committing, and reviewing AI code often took more effort than reviewing a colleague's. That data exposed important trends. This round goes deeper.
What this survey is about
The next Developer Survey will explore harder questions about what happens to all that AI code once it's written.
Agents have changed the shape of work since our last survey. More code arrives in every pull request, more of it arrives at once, and the review step is under pressure it wasn't designed for. We want the ground truth from the people living it.
Questions we're asking
This round focuses on what happens after code gets written. We're exploring topics like
- What percentage of AI-authored changes reach production with no separate human review at all?
- When AI reviews AI, is the same model that wrote the code grading its own work?
- How has the split between writing and reviewing shifted since agents arrived?
- Are the productivity gains still climbing, or have they quietly plateaued?
Together, these questions tell us whether verification is keeping pace with generation, or falling behind it.
Add your data to the record
It only takes about 20 minutes to contribute. Your insights will help us build the next State of Code report, intended to provide a data-driven compass for developers navigating AI adoption.
At Sonar, we believe all code should meet the same quality and security standards, whether written by human or agent. Understanding real-world practices helps us see how these standards can remain effective as AI writes more and more code.
Thanks for helping us define the real state of code!