I’ve spent my whole career in IT, leading IT, or in the background of IT. So you might be surprised when I say we’re fast heading to a world where we’re no longer reliant on IT as a function. That’s ...

You've heard the old joke about Bill Gates criticizing General Motors, noting that if the company had kept up with technology, then we would be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon, or ...

This week, educators, students and the public around the world are participating in Computer Science Education Week by organizing and leading one-hour coding tutorials. By the start of the week, more ...

Around 70,000 years ago, humans developed the unique ability to create and believe in shared fictions. These stories—from religions to nations to money—enabled large-scale human cooperation in ways no ...

Our role as software engineers is on the cusp of a fundamental transformation, driven by now widely available large language models (LLMs), deployed as generative AI. (I’ll avoid for now the question ...

Large language models like GPT-4 and tools like GitHub Copilot can make good programmers more efficient and bad programmers more dangerous. Are you ready to dive in? When I wrote about GitHub Copilot ...

The BitCraft Online team has begun the process of making its code open-source, a promise developer Clockwork Laboratories announced last April. In this first phase, the server source code has been ...