In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, one month can be enough to create a trend that makes big waves. In fact, only two months ago, Andrej Karpathy, a former head of AI at Tesla ...

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 ...

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 ...

When developing software, we often think about the various features it will provide and how it will improve users’ efficiency. We seldom want to think about what hidden bugs the software might contain ...

To many people, coding is about precision. It’s about telling a computer what to do and having the computer perform those actions exactly, precisely, and repeatedly. With the rise of AI tools like ...

Tech leaders have been adamant that artificial intelligence will forever change industries, jobs, and skills. That remains to be seen in most industries, but in the world of software engineering, AI ...

I recently asked whether AI is the end of IT as we know it. After seeing vibe coding in action, I had the same question: Could vibe coding be the end of software development as we know it? I asked a ...

OpenAI’s best-ever large language model is here. GPT-5 is set to breathe new life into ChatGPT, making it faster, more helpful, and easier to use. Along with GPT-5, OpenAI launched a ton of new ...

The first time I used ChatGPT to code, back in early 2023, I was reminded of “The Monkey’s Paw,” a classic horror story about an accursed talisman that grants wishes, but always by the most malevolent ...

One kind of company is out in the age of AI, says the CEO of Affirm. On an episode of the "Sourcery" podcast released on Monday, Max Levchin said that companies without quality software are the most ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...