In 2025, something unexpected happened. The programming language most notorious for its difficulty became the go-to choice for the laziest form of programming imaginable.

Work is full of time-sucking, tedious or annoying tasks, particularly when you’re on a computer. I used to spend hours on stupid chores like reorganizing someone else’s messy spreadsheet. Now, I use ...

AI coding assistants and agentic workflows represent the future of software development and will continue to evolve at a rapid pace. But while LLMs have become adept at generating functionally correct ...

IT teams are stretched to their limit. The solution lies in rethinking who gets to build, who gets to automate, and how work actually gets done. There’s a palpable tension in IT today. Teams are ...

Andrej Karpathy introduces “agentic engineering,” arguing that directing A.I. agents now defines modern software development. Photo by Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images The ...

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 ...

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 ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: Do you guys want to start out by introducing yourselves? Ben Cohen: ...

Vibe coding is a new way to create software using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Cursor, Replit, and Gemini. It works by describing to the tool what you want in plain language and receiving written code in ...

OpenAI just lobbed a grenade at vibe-coding startups like Cursor and Windsurf. The company behind ChatGPT has announced the Codex MacOS app, its take on an integrated development environment (IDE) ...