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.

COBOL was associated with the Y2K phenomenon at the turn of the century, a software problem arising from the inability of ...

Coding has generally been considered one of the most distinctly human technical skills – logical, structured and dependent on ...

A 70-year-old programming language runs nearly every ATM in America. On Monday, investors decided that's now a problem for IBM. IBM shares crashed 13.2% after AI startup Anthropic said its Claude Code ...

While Anthropic’s Claude Code grabbed headlines, IBM has been deploying its own generative AI solution, Watsonx Code Assistant for Z, designed to modernize the very mainframes it built. Unlike general ...

In February 2025, OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding.” Vibe coding refers to using AI to assist ...

Short for Common Business-Oriented Language, COBOL is a dominant code system developed in the late 1950s often used in business data processing, such as payment processing and retail transaction ...

Abstract: Our research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and software development, particularly the role of AI models in automating code generation. With advancements in ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

JCPenney is betting on short stories — and hoping for long-term benefits. Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision has created a short-form “microdrama” for the large retailer, a story told over ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...