Amazon Web Services has unveiled new autonomous AI “frontier agents” that can code, secure and operate software for days ...

One of the hottest markets in the artificial intelligence industry is selling chatbots that write computer code. Some call it “vibe-coding” because it encourages an AI coding assistant to do the grunt ...

OpenAI is creating an AI agent called A-SWE that is capable of building apps, running quality assurance tests, and writing documentation. In short, A-SWE will be able to take over the duties of ...

Andrew Wang has concerns about junior-level software engineers and how they're going to advance in their careers.

The rise of AI in software will reshape the role of software engineers, shifting their focus from traditional coding to AI oversight and integration. Google CEO Sundar Pichai made a significant ...

Friar explained that the new tool is not just about “augmenting the current software engineers in your workforce,” since that’s something that the company’s software can already do. What makes A-SWE a ...

Jonathan Kim, a would-be U.S. software engineer, began his job search over 50 weeks ago, tracking his efforts on a spreadsheet. He applied for more than 600 software engineering jobs. Six companies ...

Maitri Mangal said she took AI courses daily and still spends hours every week learning about new AI-related material.

Denisov-Blanch uses the term “ghost engineers” to describe employees who are at least 90% less productive than their average colleagues. In simple terms, they aren’t contributing much to the work at ...

A hot potato: Amid growing hype around AI agents, one experienced engineer has brought a grounded perspective shaped by work on more than a dozen production-level systems spanning development, DevOps, ...

In a leaked chat, Garman told Amazon employees that in about two years, “it’s possible that most developers are not coding.” Matt Garman became CEO of Amazon Web Services in June. In a leaked ...

Researchers have found that AI tech company Cognition’s Devin, which it claims to be the “first AI software engineer,” is astonishingly bad at its job. “Out of 20 tasks we attempted, we saw 14 ...