Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

Computer coding captured Neth Dharmasiri's 11-year-old imagination when his father handed him a beginner's guide to Python — one of the world's most popular coding languages. "Here I am, six years ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Linus Torvalds used vibe programming for a toy program. Vibe programming remains risky for serious projects. Linux developers have adopted AI tools for maintenance work. Linus Torvalds has started ...

AI coding tools are rapidly changing how we produce software, and the industry is embracing it—perhaps at the expense of entry-level coding jobs. Generative AI’s ability to write software code has ...

AI-generated code requires stepped-up human oversight. Experts advise keeping AI-generated code in a sandbox. At best, AI may do about 80% of the work in building software. We've been hearing ...

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools ...

Vibe coding turns software development into a conversation. You focus on the idea, and the AI model handles most of the implementation. Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging ...

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...