Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license. In doing so, he may ...

The agentic engineering intern. While AI is boosting software development, examples of frontier coding agents exhibiting ...

Vendor lock-in is often described as an unfortunate side effect of modern software. In reality, it is frequently a design ...

How a discontinued legacy sparked a modern language built to last for decades — Ring emerged after Microsoft canceled ...

Abstract: AI coding agents have shown great progress on Python software engineering benchmarks like SWE-Bench, and for other languages like Java and C in benchmarks like Multi-SWE-Bench. However, C# – ...

On the future of funding the Python Software Foundation Deb Nicholson, executive director of the Python Software Foundation, talks about what it will take to keep the PSF funded in the years to come, ...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes software engineers may soon be an extinct species. In an interview with The Economist at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Amodei said AI models could do “most, ...

Graduates at some of the top universities are finding it nearly impossible to find new jobs in software engineering. New reporting by the Los Angeles Times details the trouble recent graduates are ...