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AI Tools Boost Efficiency for Web Developers, Survey Shows

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While artificial intelligence sparks varied reactions across industries, web developers appear notably open to integrating AI into their workflows. Data suggests this group readily adopts AI tools, particularly those designed to manage visually heavy elements like images. Handling vast quantities of digital imagery for online platforms, including tasks like classification, optimization, and presentation, often creates significant bottlenecks for development teams due to the complexity of ensuring accessibility and search engine visibility.

An independent survey conducted in collaboration with image and video technology firm Cloudinary highlights this trend. More than half of web developers surveyed expressed high confidence in AI tools, deeming them 'very' or 'extremely' trustworthy. The primary benefit cited by developers was enhanced efficiency and overall productivity. Roughly two-thirds also indicated a willingness to utilize generative AI specifically to streamline their development processes and automate recurring tasks.

Companies specializing in digital asset management are responding to this demand. Cloudinary, for instance, is leveraging generative AI to allow both technical and non-technical users to edit images at scale. Features like automatically enhancing faces in images, improving low-quality assets in bulk, and enabling automated workflows for image transformations are seen as ways to free up developers' time for more strategic work, ultimately helping get digital assets online more effectively.