New findings from Agodas AI Developer Report 2025 reveal that developers are teaching themselves AI faster than many companies can roll out AI training, fueling rapid skill growth across the region but exposing gaps in access, support, and structure.
AI is now a defining force in career growth and learning. Eighty-seven percent of developers have changed their learning or career priorities because of AI, and 62 believe it will create more opportunities than it replaces. Most are advancing on their own: 72 of developers are self-taught, while only 28 receive employer-led training.
As formal programs struggle to keep pace, peer learning has become a key pillar of AI education. More than half 52 turn to online communities or open-source projects as their main learning platforms, driving a fast-moving culture of experimentation, collaboration, and shared growth.