We’re seeing a wave of new generative AI tools that can write text, generate images, create music and more. Some can even write computer code, which makes sense when you think that computer code ...

Gemini kept going in that vein and eventually repeated the phrase, "I am a disgrace," over 80 times consecutively. Other ...

Google has unveiled a new approach to using large language models (LLMs) that shows how robots can write their own code on the basis of instructions from humans. The latest work builds on Google's ...

ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware For a beta, ChatGPT isn't all that bad at writing fairly decent malware.

In some ways, this refactoring method is the opposite of simplification. Here, the goal is to abstract parts of the code from the implementation details, enabling simpler future expansion. A good ...

Some software developers are now letting artificial intelligence help write their code. They’re finding that AI is just as flawed as humans. Last June, GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft that ...

Writing good code means writing simple, clear, “boring” code—code that minimizes the cognitive effort required to understand it.

Although it is less strictly enforced in writing prose, there still is significant pressure to conform to certain absolutes even in writing prose. For example, it is generally assumed that most ...