Most software developers that I know, especially the best ones, loathe worthless tasks. This is probably true of most people who strive to do what they do to the best of their ability, but I’m not ...

AI tools don’t always boost productivity. A new study from Model Evaluation and Threat Research found that when 16 software developers were asked to perform tasks using AI tools, the they took longer ...

It’s time we officially bury the idea that AI means we won’t need software developers. For years, we’ve heard that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are coming for our jobs. In software ...

Software coding is fun. Ask any developer why they are compelled to a life of programming and they’ll all confirm this truth. Software application development professionals, hobbyists, students and ...

It can autonomously plan and execute thousand-step tasks. It can build and deploy entire software projects all by itself. It can research and fix bugs 7x better than OpenAI's GPT-4, and it trains and ...

Software engineering is among the many fields being changed with the fast progress in large language models (LLMs). In a few years, LLMs have evolved from advanced code autocomplete tools to AI agents ...

One area where generative AI tools have shown real potential is assisting developers in creating software, as well as the testing platforms and documentation that go along with it, according to a new ...

Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE? GitHub’s floating the idea. Ahead of its annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco early this fall, GitHub announced Copilot Workspace ...