Surveys asking developers how far they trust AI tools. The number that gets quoted depends mostly on how the question was asked and which answers someone decided to count as trust.
These numbers get used to argue that agent output is or isn't reliable. A survey can't show that. It tells you how people feel about the output, and it says nothing about how often the output is right. Only your own checks can tell you that.
Say it to your agent
“Don't write that trust in AI tripled. Quote the exact wording of each year's question from survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai and survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/, list which answers each headline counted, and tell me whether the two can be compared at all.”