What is a software developer? A developer – also known as a programmer, coder or software engineer – is an IT professional who uses programming languages to create computer software. What do software ...

The firms that treat agentic AI as a chance to rebuild the software factory and rewire how work gets done will likely extract ...

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 ...

It’s easy to forget how much work goes into making a videogame, particularly the AAA kind. We tend to associate games with one or two visionaries – the Miyamotos, the Levines, the Kojimas – while ...

The software developer kit will let programmers create Java software for real or emulated Android mobile phones. Plus: a $10 million contest for coders. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

AI coding tools act like power tools for programmers. Programming jobs will change, but not disappear entirely. New tester and AI-wrangler roles will grow alongside coders. Something terrifying is ...

If the open source model has a sweet spot, it’s in programming tools. Linus Torvalds’s fabled “world domination” on the desktops of clerks or CEOs may never arrive, but it’s already here on the ...

Justin Flint, 27, has one big piece of advice for getting promoted after he went from the assembly line to software engineer ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...