Fast Company’s “AI Decoded” newsletter makes the case that the first “killer app” for generative AI… is coding.

Tools like Cursor and Windsurf can now complete software projects with minimal input or oversight from human engineers… Naveen Rao, ch…

Long-time Slashdot reader mbessey (a Mac/iOS developer) writes:

As we’re coming up on the 50th anniversary of the first release of UCSD Pascal, I thought it would be interesting to poke around in it a bit, and work on some tools to bring this “portabl…

“Our future won’t be handed to us,” says the young narrator in a new ad from the nonprofit Code.org. “We will build it.”

“But how can we when the education we need is still just an elective?” says another young voice…

The ad goes on to tout the p…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI — during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday. From a report: Nadella gav…

A new study [PDF] reveals AI-generated code frequently references non-existent third-party libraries, creating opportunities for supply-chain attacks. Researchers analyzed 576,000 code samples from 16 popular large language models and found 19.7% of pa…

US government agencies and Fortune 500 companies are turning to AI to modernize mission-critical systems built on COBOL, a programming language dating back to the late 1950s. The US Social Security Administration plans a three-year, $1 billion AI-assis…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI startup Lovable, Figma confirmed to TechCrunch. The letter tells Lovable to stop using the term “Dev Mode” for a new product feature. Fi…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI startup Lovable, Figma confirmed to TechCrunch. The letter tells Lovable to stop using the term “Dev Mode” for a new product feature. Fi…

You should still learn to code, says GitHub’s CEO. And you should start as soon as possible. From a report: “I strongly believe that every kid, every child, should learn coding,” Thomas Dohmke said in a recent podcast interview with EO. “We should actu…