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Write code like you actually slept last night: Visual Studio 2026 is just $42.50

TL;DR: Developers can grab Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $42.50 (MSRP: $499.99) with code MARCH15 through ...
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Report: Repeatedly asking an AI to 'write better code' makes the code run faster but increases the number of bugs

tools that use AI to support programming have also appeared. In the midst of this, data scientist Max Wolf reported the results of an experiment to see what would happen if you repeatedly asked an AI ...
Bitcoin Magazine

Cypherpunks (Don’t Just) Write Code

If they wish to be effective in enacting change in the world, cypherpunks must do more than just write code. “Privacy is necessary for an open society in the ...
GIGAZINE

AI coding assistant refuses to write code, advises users to learn programming

GitHub Copilot and Cursor that assist with coding, the barrier to entry for programming is becoming dramatically lower. However, an engineer developing a racing game with Cursor reported that the AI ...
Yahoo Finance

Spotify CEO says its top developers 'have not written a single line of code' in 2026

Spotify's CEO says the company's best developers are exclusively using AI to write code. Gustav Söderström said AI generates the code and the engineers "supervise" it. Some engineers have said ...
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“Coding is dead”? Teaching computer programming in the age of AI

With the current mania for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is much anguish about AI replacing jobs. Many university lecturers despair that the pinnacle of education, the ability of a ...