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On a recent late-night formula run, I passed by a large display of books about teaching children to code. I have seen these books around, but never such a large display directed toward elementary-aged ...

Since ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence (AI) hit the public consciousness in 2022, I've been exploring how well AI chatbots can write code. At first, the technology was a novelty, akin to ...

Vibe coding is the trend now, with many people claiming you don’t need to learn to code anymore because of it. But I’m going the other way, and I'll share with you why. Every day I log into Reddit, I ...

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On February 2nd, 2025, computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy made a flippant tweet that launched a new phrase into the internet’s collective consciousness. He posted that he’d ...

I arrived at M.I.T. in the fall of 2004. I had just turned twenty-two, and was there to pursue a doctorate as part of something called the Theory of Computation group—a band of computer scientists who ...

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The annual developer conference kicks off with a keynote address on Tuesday. Look out for updates on Android, Gemini, Search, and Google’s latest forays into XR. The apple blossoms are sprouting, the ...

I’m the youngest of four kids. My dad died in 1990 at age 70. My mom died in 2018 at 96 after 10-plus years of dementia. I am 70, widowed in 1994 at age 39, and have no kids. I struggled financially ...

Vibe coding is the practice of instructing AI to write code using plain English prompts. CEOs like Google’s Sundar Pichai and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang have touted AI’s ability to write code. I put vibe ...

Can a non-developer use vibe coding to build and deploy a full-stack app? And can that app actually do anything useful? I used to be a developer, many decades ago, but I’m not one any longer. The ...