Cutting corners: The code looked harmless. A GitHub repository, a small freelance task, and a standard request sent over LinkedIn to a blockchain engineer: run this snippet, fix a few bugs, get paid.

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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 ...

When it comes to coding, peer feedback is crucial for catching bugs early, maintaining consistency across a codebase, and improving overall software quality. The rise of “vibe coding” — using AI tools ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Vibe coding uses AI to turn plain language into lightweight tools, helping teams prototype, ...

Megan Smith Evans, 33, cleared £13,000 of her £15,000 debt in a year by tracking spending with a colour-coded calendar. The tattoo artist, who overspent on her puppy, takeaways and leisure, began with ...

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...

Open source has always had issues, but the benefits outweighed the costs/risks. AI is not merely exponentially accelerating tasks, it is disproportionately increasing risks. Coders are understandably ...

Anthropic today updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6, and the company says it is the most capable Sonnet model to date with upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent ...

Reddit is unifying search with its AI Q&A. It's goal: to become an end-to-end discovery engine where users finish, not just start, queries. Eighty million people use Reddit search every week, Reddit ...

File (de)compression with different key lengths, e.g. 1,2,... bytes per Huffman's code. Allows for file size reduction of 20% to 80%. 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ----- [AL AL AL] [BL BL BL BL BL] 3bits 5bits AL - ...

I use coding agents every day. I haven’t written a line of code for any of my side projects in many weeks. I don’t use coding agents in my day job yet, but only because the work requires a deeper ...