Best Of 2025: Five Trends That Will Drive Software Development In 2025
DevOps.com, December 11,2025
Over the past year, developers have eagerly adopted generative AI to accelerate coding and streamline their workflows. In GitLab's latest DevSecOps survey, 78% of respondents said they are using AI for software development or plan to do so in the next two years.
In 2025, developers will broaden the scope of how they use AI with promising new applications for reducing technical debt and improving security. Developers will also use AI to modernize legacy applications that may be important to the business but were not previously considered critical enough to justify upgrading. AI will make app modernization financially viable for the first time - one of several ways that AI will start to reveal its ROI.