Not everyone can declare themselves “benevolent dictator for life” of a company, but such was the nature of Guido van Rossum, the Dutch programmer who invented an entire programming language from ...

I've spent the better part of this year writing about how AI, specifically vibe coding, can turn anyone into a programmer—theoretically. Now the time has come to test this theory. Claude Code is the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Stanford computer science graduates are discovering their degrees no longer guarantee jobs as AI coding tools now ...

I got an email from a friend this week in response to my column about coding domains that no developer understands. He wrote: Bro, if you don’t understand Kubernetes, it just means your claim to have ...

Adrian Crane climbed mountains in Scotland with his father and uncle when he was a boy. He remembers using ice axes to climb in the winter when he was only 15. There is this “great feeling you get of ...

Recent years have seen a huge shift to online services. By necessity, remote jobs have skyrocketed, and the tech industry has ballooned. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, software developer ...

A prominent computer science professor at one of the world’s most prestigious universities says his graduates are struggling to find work — a far cry from just four years ago when they had their pick ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Francis Wolke moved across the country to Silicon Valley with a dream – to join the ranks of the wealthy elite. But instead the 30-year-old computer programmer went down a dark path and his name would ...

Late computer programming Italian teenager Carlo Acutis became the first millennial saint on Sunday. Pope Leo XIV held Acutis’s canonization Mass on Sunday, making Acutis his first canonization during ...

Abraham Rubio has wanted to be a software engineer since childhood. On the gaming platform Minecraft, he loved tinkering with “mods,” or alterations to video games created by fans that change elements ...

Melissa Sarnowski has been a game writer for over two years. While she's willing to dig into any game for an article, she heavily focuses on The Legend of Zelda, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, and The ...