BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Tech leaders have been adamant that artificial intelligence will forever change industries, jobs, and skills. That remains to be seen in most industries, but in the world of software engineering, AI ...

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 ...

Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen2.5-Coder, a new AI coding assistant that has already become the second most popular demo on Hugging Face Spaces. Early tests suggest its performance rivals GPT-4o, and ...

Have computer programmers innovated themselves out of a job? That’s the fear driving theories that AI will remove the need for humans who can write computer code. Today's most sophisticated large ...