And so, I dove in. I've used many of the languages I'm spotlighting here, so I'll take a little walk down memory lane and include some stories about my experience with those I've used. While I haven't ...

We’re seeing a wave of new generative AI tools that can write text, generate images, create music and more. Some can even write computer code, which makes sense when you think that computer code is ...

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The notion of assembly language is as old as computing. Typically, assembly meant specific instructions for moving data around inside of a physical central processor. Everything in a computer is ones ...

I have always taken it for granted that, just as my parents made sure that I could read and write, I would make sure that my kids could program computers. It is among the newer arts but also among the ...

Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm more than a little freaked out. As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...

Dario Amodei, the CEO and cofounder of Anthropic, said AI could be coding most software soon. AI could be "writing essentially all of the code" in 12 months, Amodei said. He said he expected AI to ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...