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 ...

Machine language: Will ChatGPT have a job market impact? Again, this is my first newsletter after a month-long hiatus. You might think that after such a long break I would have trouble picking a topic ...

Sometimes major shifts happen virtually unnoticed. On May 5, IBM announced Project CodeNet to very little media or academic attention. CodeNet is a follow-up to ImageNet, a large-scale dataset of ...

In recent years, researchers have used artificial intelligence to improve translation between programming languages or automatically fix problems. The AI system ...

What if you could turn your ideas into working code simply by describing them in plain language? Imagine skipping the tedious syntax, the endless debugging, and the steep learning curve of traditional ...

For decades, coding has been a structured, rule-based discipline demanding precise syntax, rigid logic and meticulous human effort to translate ideas into machine-executable commands. In high school, ...