In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
AI coding agents are reshaping how developers write, debug, and maintain software in 2026. The debate around Claude Code vs ChatGPT Codex highlights two distinct philosophies: local-first reasoning ...
A year ago, I had no clue how to write an iPhone app. Now I’ve shipped a fully-fledged strength training app, built with AI coding tools, or “vibe coding” as it’s become known. A lot of people get ...
AI I tested Gemini 3 Flash vs Claude 4.6 Opus in 9 tough challenges — here’s the winner AI I tested ChatGPT-5.2 vs Claude 4.6 Opus in 9 tough challenges — here’s the winner AI I swapped ChatGPT for ...
According to the music streaming platform Spotify and its co-CEO Gustav Söderström, the company's best developers "have not written a single line of code since December.” Yet Spotify continues to roll ...
Hello, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. “Programming, as it turns out, is just typing.” Talking at Cisco’s AI Summit in San Francisco on February 3, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made that ...
CNBC put the AI threat to software companies to the test by vibe-coding a version of the tools from Monday.com. Silicon Valley insiders say the most exposed software names are the ones that "sit on ...
Goose acts as the agent that plans, iterates, and applies changes. Ollama is the local runtime that hosts the model. Qwen3-coder is the coding-focused LLM that generates results. If you've been ...
Cortex Code, Snowflake’s AI coding agent, helps customers like Braze, Decile, dentsu, FYUL, LendingTree, Shelter Mutual Insurance, TextNow, United Rentals, and WHOOP perform complex data engineering, ...
ChatGPT may be the best-known artificial intelligence chatbot on the market, but the latest iteration of AI startup Anthropic’s coding bot, Claude Code, is newly entering the spotlight. By simplifying ...
For early-career developers, the signal is messy. Newer programmers lean on these tools more, yet the clearest performance gains show up among veterans. In other words, AI tends to reward people who ...
Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I sat down ...