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Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...

Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift. By Noam Scheiber Noam Scheiber has ...

Software engineers at Amazon say artificial intelligence is transforming their work — not by replacing them, but by pressuring them to code faster, meet higher output targets and rely more heavily on ...

Researchers from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems have, for the first time, shown that ...

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 ...

On February 2nd, 2025, computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy made a flippant tweet that launched a new phrase into the internet’s collective consciousness. He posted that he’d ...

Vibe coding, a new AI-driven programming approach, shifts focus from manual coding to conversational AI instructions, massively increasing developers’ code generation and iteration. Advanced Micro ...

The tech industry used to depend on niche technical knowledge for exclusivity. But in the last year, there's been a shift toward "vibe coding," as OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy calls it. While I ...

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...