Most Go language developers are using AI-powered software development tools, but their satisfaction with these tools is middling, according to the 2025 Go Developer Survey. The survey also found that the vast majority of Go developers—91%—were satisfied with using the language.
Results of the survey, which featured responses from 5,739 Go developers in September 2025, were published January 21 in the go.dev blog.
In the survey, 55% of respondents reported being satisfied with AI-powered development tools, but this was heavily weighted towards “Somewhat satisfied” (42%) vs. “Very satisfied” (13%). Respondents were asked to tell something good they had accomplished with these tools as well as something that did not work out. A majority said that creating non-functional code was their primary problem with AI developer tools (53%), while nearly one-third (30%) lamented that even working code was of poor quality, according to the report. The most frequently cited benefits of AI coding tools, conversely, were generating unit tests, writing boilerplate code, enhanced autocompletion, refactoring, and documentation generation.
