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 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 ...

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 ...

Distillery reports that in 2025, generative AI is significantly boosting software developer productivity, enhancing ...

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 ...

I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence. Credit...Photo Illustration by Ben Denzer; Source Photographs by Sue Bernstein and Paul ...

Mark Windholtz spent the first 12 years of his programming career writing code alone in a cubicle. But now when Windholtz creates code, he does so with a comrade at his side--one of the tenets of the ...