{"id":81345,"date":"2025-09-23T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81345\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:07:08","slug":"how-are-developers-using-ai-inside-googles-2025-dora-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81345\/","title":{"rendered":"How are developers using AI? Inside Google&#8217;s 2025 DORA report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trust and productivity paradox<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"34ti\">Despite the widespread adoption and perceived benefits, some software development professionals remain cautious about using AI in their work. Our report uncovers a surprising &#8220;trust paradox&#8221;: While 24% of respondents report a &#8220;great deal&#8221; (4%) or &#8220;a lot&#8221; (20%) of trust in AI, 30% trust it &#8220;a little&#8221; (23%) or &#8220;not at all&#8221; (7%). This indicates that AI outputs are perceived as useful and valuable by many of this year\u2019s survey respondents, despite a lack of complete trust in them. This could also imply that AI is being incorporated into workflows as a supportive tool to enhance productivity and efficiency, rather than serving as a full substitute for human judgment.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dv21q\">While AI is boosting individual performance, its effect on organizations is more complex. This year&#8217;s research shows that AI adoption is now linked to higher software delivery throughput, meaning teams are releasing more software and applications, which is a positive reversal of last year&#8217;s findings. However, the ongoing challenge remains of ensuring software works as intended before it&#8217;s delivered to users.<\/p>\n<p>Reflections on how teams work<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4pl86\">Our research this year also found that AI can act as a &#8220;mirror and a multiplier.\u201d In cohesive organizations, AI boosts efficiency. In fragmented ones, it highlights weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2i9nr\">To better understand these underlying conditions, this year&#8217;s report moves beyond simple performance metrics to reveal seven distinct team archetypes, providing a deeper, more human-centric view of what drives success in AI adoption. These profiles, from &#8220;Harmonious high-achievers&#8221; to teams caught in a &#8220;Legacy bottleneck,&#8221; offer a richer narrative that can help organizations understand the unique interplay between performance, well-being and workplace environment.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5i7q5\">For organizations ready to adopt AI, new tools can help them evolve their work processes &#8211; meaning they benefit from both the productivity boost and the resulting transformation.<\/p>\n<p>A blueprint for guiding AI in organizations<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2l1dc\">Adoption of AI alone isn&#8217;t enough to guarantee success though. That\u2019s why this year, we\u2019re also introducing a new blueprint of seven essential capabilities for amplifying AI&#8217;s impact. <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/ai-machine-learning\/introducing-doras-inaugural-ai-capabilities-model\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The DORA AI Capabilities Model<\/a> is based on extensive research and identifies a blend of technical and cultural factors that are crucial for success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trust and productivity paradox Despite the widespread adoption and perceived benefits, some software development professionals remain cautious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,19,17,1186,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-81345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-none","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}