Coding agents make software developers more productive today, and will change their jobs dramatically tomorrow.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Entrepreneur and technologist in AI and AI Literacy. A recent New York Times podcast challenges that the tech industry encouraged ...

Just because you can use generative AI in software development doesn’t mean you should. AI coding assistants powered by large language models (LLMs) are a productivity dream in some cases but a ...

When the first computers needed coding in the 1940s, people manually programmed the unbelievably expensive tech by flipping switches. As time went on, the process evolved. Next, there was binary code ...

To many people, coding is about precision. It’s about telling a computer what to do and having the computer perform those actions exactly, precisely, and repeatedly. With the rise of AI tools like ...

There's a new hot buzz in the world of coding called "vibe coding." It floated into the collective zeitgeist in early February, courtesy of a post on Twitter/X by Andrej Karpathy. Karpathy is no ...

Free AI chatbots handle small projects surprisingly well. Pro coding agents deliver serious productivity boosts for pro coders. Spend based on what you need to get the job done. The use of AI in ...

"Vibe coding" is a phenomenon that curiously differs in definition depending on who you're asking. It's a spectrum of sorts; some use AI tools like ChatGPT to develop programs wholesale, with no ...

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...

In the pre-large language model (LLM) Stack Overflow era, the challenge was discerning which code snippets to adopt and adapt effectively. Now, while generating code has become trivially easy, the ...