I am by no means a skilled coder, but thanks to a free program called SWE-agent, I was just able to debug and fix a gnarly problem involving a misnamed file within different code repositories on the ...

A slower "reasoning" model might do more of the work for you -- and keep vibe coding from becoming a chore.

Ever since the sudden explosion of AI awareness, many people have asked me if coding as we know it is dead. The question has come from many sources—parents wondering if their kids should even bother ...

Are large language models (LLMs) our new operating systems? If so, they are changing the definition of what we consider to be software. LLMs are complex software ecosystems, Karpathy explained in a ...

A string of startups are racing to build models that can produce better and better software. They claim it’s the shortest path to AGI. Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for ...

Programming is sometimes seen as more of a "dark art" than an engineering discipline. Developing programs that can be read and used by non-programmers is an "El Dorado" that many businesses have ...

On a 5K screen in Kirkland, Washington, four terminals blur with activity as artificial intelligence generates thousands of lines of code. Steve Yegge, a veteran software engineer who previously ...

The profession is changing in another way, too. A growing share of the world’s engineers come from emerging markets. There is no standard definition of a developer, but one way to assess this is to ...