Cursor became useful when I stopped chasing code ...

How do the productivity effects of AI evolve across successive generations of tools, and to what extent do task-level gains ultimately translate into final output? We study these questions in the ...

The work that remains, and continues to demand investment, includes system architecture, domain expertise, the relational ...

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good.

Engineering has always meant two things at once: Someone with a name is accountable, and work that can be verified. The ...

What is AI going to do to the traditional practice of writing software code? What we’re already finding is that AI can do more and more types of coding as well, or almost as well, as human beings.

What do you think there are more of: professional computer programmers or computer users who do a little programming? It’s the second group. There are millions of so-called end-user programmers.

Last week I summarized the difficulties in preventing buffer overflows in complex software and introduced fuzzers. With multiple buffer overflows announced every week on some of the world’s most ...

The CEO of the software company Freshworks says his employees are using OpenAI's ChatGPT to write code — and it's saving them a ton of time. "We use ChatGPT to write code," Girish Mathrubootham told ...

Maximizing code reuse in your Java programs means writing code that is easy to read, understand, and maintain. Here are eight ways to get started. Writing reusable code is a vital skill for every ...