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AI is making everything worse everywhere — but in the world of coding, it's making things more insecure, too.

Artificial Intelligence

Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is peddling what it calls a "cloud-based software engineering agent," but fails to explain where its getting the data to train it.

Codex, OpenAI’s New Coding Agent, Wants to Be a World-Killer

A 21-year-old went from viral sensation to startup founder after getting kicked out of Columbia for creating an AI that helps you cheat.

Artificial Intelligence

Columbia Student Kicked Out for Creating AI to Cheat, Raises Millions to Turn It Into a Startup

By Noor Al-Sibai

Like so many trolls before, AI is now, apparently, telling people to learn to code when they ask it to write it for them.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Programming Assistant Tells User to Stop Being Lazy and Learn to Code

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models can't really solve the coding problems put in front of them.

OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems

By Noor Al-Sibai

Young programmers "can't actually program" because they're too reliant on AI models, writers developer Namanyay Goel.

Artificial Intelligence

Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving “Blank Stares” When Asked How Programs Actually Work

By Frank Landymore

Writing for The Guardian, former journalist Tristan Cross says he learned to code, an area that is now being threatened by AI chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

A Writer Actually “Learned to Code” And Now AI Threatens That, Too

By Noor Al-Sibai

Silicon Valley darling and ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly hired roughly 1,000 contractors with the goal of improving its text-to-code AI, Codex.

OpenAI Reportingly Hiring “Army” of Devs to Train AI to Replace Entry-Level Coders

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After catching snippets of ChatGPT text that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking to the AI.

Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

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This Futuristic Robot Arm Is a 3D Printer, Laser Engraver, and Much More

A new trend in San Francisco's Silicon Valley involves DJs who perform electronic music by coding their sets in real time.

These DJs Are Making Music By Coding on a Huge Screen

By Dan Robitzski

littleBits Superhero Kit: Teaching Kids Block-Based Coding

littleBits Superhero Kit: Teaching Kids Block-Based Coding

By Sarah Marquart

Software Engineers Could Soon Outsource Part of Their Jobs To Alexa

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Software Engineers Could Soon Outsource Part of Their Jobs To Alexa

The Military Just Created An AI That Learned How To Program Software

The Military Just Created An AI That Learned How To Program Software

By Dan Robitzski

An Old Version of Facebook Contains a Secret Voice Assistant

An Old Version of Facebook Contains a Secret Voice Assistant

By Patrick Caughill

The Next Blue Collar Job? Coding

The Next Blue Collar Job? Coding

By June Javelosa