Ars Technica

AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...
PCMag on MSN

Vibe Coding Is Everywhere. Here's How It Works and 5 Tips for Getting Started

These AI coding agents are as miraculous as they are error-prone, but still worth a try.
MIT Technology Review

What is vibe coding, exactly?

While letting AI take the wheel and write the code for your website may seem like a good idea, it’s not without its limitations. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, ...
Wired

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...
MIT Technology Review

How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...
The New York Times

Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough.

I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence. Credit...Photo Illustration by Ben Denzer; Source Photographs by Sue Bernstein and Paul ...
Business Insider

ChatGPT spells the end of coding as we know it

Your browser does not support the video element. Your browser does not support the video element. Follow Aki Ito Every time Aki publishes a story, you’ll get an ...
The New York Times

OpenAI Unveils New Tool for Computer Programmers

The tool, Codex, will be able to handle multiple tasks at the same time, the company said. OpenAI is also in talks to acquire a coding tool called Windsurf for $3 billion. By Cade Metz Cade Metz ...
Ars Technica

10X coders beware: Meta’s new AI model boosts coding and debugging for free

Meta is adding another Llama to its herd—and this one knows how to code. On Thursday, Meta unveiled “Code Llama,” a new large language model (LLM) based on Llama 2 that is designed to assist ...
The Washington Post

Are ‘ghost engineers’ real? Seeking Silicon Valley’s least productive coders.

Yegor Denisov-Blanch is a Stanford business school researcher, not a medium, but he has spent recent weeks communing with phantoms. Many have been angry. The deluge of messages began after the 32-year ...
The Atlantic

So Much for ‘Learn to Code’

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