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 ...

Over the holidays, Alex Lieberman had an idea: What if he could create Spotify “Wrapped” for his text messages? Without writing a single line of code, Lieberman, a co-founder of the media outlet ...

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-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 ...

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 ...

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...