There's a new hot buzz in the world of coding called "vibe coding." It floated into the collective zeitgeist in early February, courtesy of a post on Twitter/X by Andrej Karpathy. Karpathy is no ...

It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that today’s generative AI large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are just as fluent in Python, Javascript and C++ as they are in ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, one month can be enough to create a trend that makes big waves. In fact, only two months ago, Andrej Karpathy, a former head of AI at Tesla ...

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software ...

I've tested the coding capabilities of many generative AI tools for ZDNET -- and this time, it's Perplexity's turn. Perplexity feels like a cross between a search engine and an AI chatbot. When I ...

Researchers at Together AI and Agentica have released DeepCoder-14B, a new coding model that delivers impressive performance comparable to leading proprietary models like OpenAI's o3-mini. Built on ...

A string of startups are racing to build models that can produce better and better software. They claim it’s the shortest path to AGI. Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for ...

Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded. Rover has been in the industry for 15 years, mainly working as a web developer. She’s now building a startup ...

The improved AI agent access in Xcode has made vibe coding astoundingly simple for beginners, to a level where some apps can be made without manually writing any code at all. Here's what we found. The ...

Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE? GitHub’s floating the idea. Ahead of its annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco early this fall, GitHub announced Copilot Workspace ...

AI-powered coding agents are now real and usable, if not without their foibles. Here’s a brief look at the top prospects. A year ago, almost nobody had heard of coding agents, and if they did, it was ...

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...