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 right balance lies in using AI where it accelerates safely and relies on skilled engineers to govern where it cannot.

SANTA CLARA, CA - December 16, 2025 - - As artificial intelligence tools become deeply embedded in modern software development workflows, a counterintuitive shift is taking shape across the technology ...

On a 5K screen in Kirkland, Washington, four terminals blur with activity as artificial intelligence generates thousands of lines of code. Steve Yegge, a veteran software engineer who previously ...

I am by no means a skilled coder, but thanks to a free program called SWE-agent, I was just able to debug and fix a gnarly problem involving a misnamed file within different code repositories on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I closely examine the relatively new field ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--Sending software development work to lower-cost locations overseas is vital for profits, software company leaders and industry advisers said here Monday. But speakers at the ...

Not everyone who knows how to code software gets rich quickly, if at all. But extra money can be generated from software coding as passive income from side projects or independent distribution of ...

Devs often rely on local environments — i.e. their laptops — to write, build and test code before shipping it to a cloud service to integrate and deploy it. There’s nothing wrong with that approach.