96% of Devs Don't Trust AI Code. Companies Are Firing Devs Because of It.

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72% of developers use AI coding tools every single day. 96% don't trust the code those tools produce. Read that again. The Adoption-Trust Paradox 🤔 We are adopting AI tools at scale, even though we don't trust them. Then using that adoption as the rationale to cut jobs. Oracle just announced plans to lay off thousands of developers. Smaller teams can "build software in less time with fewer people." The rough part is that's only true because we're cutting corners on quality and security, and shipping software we know is broken.