One of the most powerful features of language-based generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, or AWS Code Whisperer is the ability to create computer code. After all, code is just another ...

Mark Windholtz spent the first 12 years of his programming career writing code alone in a cubicle. But now when Windholtz creates code, he does so with a comrade at his side--one of the tenets of the ...

It wasn't that long ago that the idea of using AI for development was science fiction. Then, along came GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI pair-programming service, in the summer of 2022. GitHub partnered ...

Since the turn of the year, I've been observing a tremendous surge in the popularity of topics related to artificial intelligence (AI) as well as the opportunities and risks it presents. The free ...

For years, if you had questions about C pointers, JavaScript operators, or how inheritance works in Python, your first destination was Stack Overflow. So, how important has Stack Overflow been? As the ...

On a most basic level, a computer programmer writes, well, programs. Programmers will also rewrite, debug, maintain, and test (and retest) software and programs that instruct the computer to ...

TIOBE Index News (December 2023): Smaller Programming Languages Are Rising in Popularity Your email has been sent The rise of smaller languages may be due to the number of programmers increasing or to ...

The survey results also revealed that code volume might not be the best metric for measuring productivity when developers use AI tools. Reading time 2 minutes Is using computer code to debug computer ...