"Agoda's AI Developer Report 2025 shows that AI has become a mainstream tool for developers in Southeast Asia and India, delivering real productivity gains while raising new questions about reliability, skills, and organisational readiness. The report finds that AI adoption is nearly universal: 95% of developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools weekly, and more than half keep an AI assistant open while they work. Developers report clear speed improvements-over 90% say AI makes them faster-but describe the impact as steady, incremental gains rather than dramatic automation of their jobs."
"Tooling has consolidated-ChatGPT is used by around 87% of respondents, and many say their IDEs are already "AI-ready"-but formal policies lag. Only about one in four teams report operating under official AI guidelines, and roughly 60% say their organisation has no formal AI policy in place. In practice, developers are filling this gap with bottom-up practices. Reliability and inconsistent outputs are named as the top barrier to broader use by nearly 80% of respondents."
AI tools are used weekly by 95% of developers in Southeast Asia and India, with more than half keeping an AI assistant open while working. Over 90% report faster workflows, characterising benefits as steady, incremental improvements rather than wholesale automation. ChatGPT reaches roughly 87% usage and many IDEs are described as AI-ready, yet only about 25% of teams follow official AI guidelines and around 60% lack formal policies. Developers mitigate risks through bottom-up practices: constant review of AI-generated code, routine reworking for correctness, and a default review culture that supports responsible adoption amid organisational gaps.
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