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

A new technology called Codex generates programs in 12 coding languages and even translates between them. But it is not a threat to professional programmers. Tom Smith, a veteran programmer, shows how ...

In June 2021, GitHub announced Copilot, a kind of auto-complete for computer code powered by OpenAI’s text-generation technology. It provided an early glimpse of the impressive potential of generative ...

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...