[Simon Willison] has put together a list of how, exactly, one goes about using a large language models (LLM) to help write code. If you have wondered just what the workflow and techniques look like, ...

As large language models (LLMs) continue to improve at coding, the benchmarks used to evaluate their performance are steadily becoming less useful. That's because though many LLMs have similar high ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

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How programming will change over the next 10 years: 5 predictions Your email has been sent 1. Programming will be more abstract 2. AI will become part of every developer’s toolkit–but won’t replace ...

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“I don’t have time to learn it.” We’ve all said it — some of us are still saying it. Many dream of being more data savvy, and so resolve to learn R (or Python, or C or whatever programming language is ...

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