Advancements in AI mean that people can create software just by describing it. Consider this your vibe coding primer.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT can write code from scratch based on plain English instructions, Amazon has an AI coding tool, and Google debuted Codey in May, an AI model trained on programming languages.

Python, meanwhile, is an interpreted language, which means that its human code is converted into machine code line-by-line as the program executes, enabling it to run without first being compiled.

Made with Microsoft Bing Image Creator. Prompt: “A robot helping a software engineer develop code.” Generative AI is already changing the way software engineers do their jobs.

Google Code Assist now includes Gemini 2.5 in its free tier, ... Last year, I discussed Google Next 2024 announcement of its Google Code Assist AI programming helper.

Don’t bother learning to code. “Programming will be obsolete,” Matt Welsh, a former engineer at Google and Apple, predicted recently. Welsh now runs an A.I. start-up, but his prediction ...

Amazon CodeWhisperer, Google Bard, and GitHub Copilot X plod through our AI pair programming challenge. Each tool has its strengths, and none of them are perfect.

Copilot-enabled repos are 40% more likely to contain API keys, passwords, or tokens — just one of several issues security leaders must address as AI-generated code proliferates.

In this project’s Ada code, a record is used for information about command line arguments (flag names, values, etc.) with these argument records stored in a vector.

Their journey to create a more user-friendly language began in 1956 with Dartmouth Simplified Code , followed by the Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment .