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 ...

Researchers have found that AI tech company Cognition’s Devin, which it claims to be the “first AI software engineer,” is astonishingly bad at its job. “Out of 20 tasks we attempted, we saw 14 ...

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 ...

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 is hitting its peak electrification moment, and the traditional software developer’s role is shifting quickly as a result. Jeff Bezos once said that in the early days of electrification, ...

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 ...

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 development requires powerful features and industry-specific integrations in order to manage projects effectively. Project management tools for developers often come with more customization, ...

It’s like a new telling of the “Tortoise and the Hare”: A group of experienced software engineers entered into an experiment in which they were tasked with completing some of their work with the help ...