It’s safe to say that AI was the story of 2025: It topped CIOs’ tech agendas; vendors rolled out a constant stream of new AI products and features; and IT professionals and other knowledge workers got down to the business of integrating it into their workflows.
AI’s current and future impact on IT jobs and how work gets done featured in six of our top 10 articles. In particular, the use of AI in software development captured reader interest, as coding assistants became more widely used and vibe coding became part of the vernacular.
But for every story about how AI is revolutionizing some aspect of IT is another that points to ongoing challenges — with finding workers with the requisite skill, with AI’s propensity to produce “false outputs,” and, notably, with getting real business value from AI projects.
