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Programmers work on code to find and solve issues. They come up with strategies for enhancing and streamlining code, and they use code to implement company initiatives. While computer programmers ...

Sounds familiar? Personally, I have yet to meet a programmer who hasn’t been through at least one episode of burnout. It sounds paradox: The same person who fell in love with code in their teens ...

Since the turn of the year, I've been observing a tremendous surge in the popularity of topics related to artificial intelligence (AI) as well as the opportunities and risks it presents.

Being a software programmer is one of the best jobs these days for your pocketbook and your job security, but it can be incredibly bad for your mental health. Two things are going on that are ...

If your image of a computer programmer is a young man, there's a good reason: It's true. Recently, many big tech companies revealed how few of their female employees worked in programming and ...

It was like learning to program all over again. Long before Haskell coalesced into a programming language, it was a swarm of theoretical concepts. In 1977, the computer scientist John Backus ...

"AI will be the end of programmers everywhere," an article I recently read declared. The author argued that with AI and a trend called "Vibecoding," even people with no technical background can ...