Pole Przemyslaw "Psyho" Debiak won the prestigious AWTF Heuristic programming tournament. He beat not only the human participants, but also AI. He is the only human to have succeeded. A Polish ...

In a surprising turn, Polish programmer Przemysław Dębiak, known as "Psyho," triumphed over OpenAI's coding tool at the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lauded Dębiak's victory, ...

A human programmer won a coding competition in Tokyo. An OpenAI tool took second place. Sam Altman and OpenAI congratulated the winner on X. "I'm trying to give 100% of what I have and try to stay ...

AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids’ school lunches. But that doesn’t mean it’s taking over Way back in 2023, Andrej Karpathy, an eminent AI guru, made ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. Regardless of your career choice, you will always need a ...

For one, programming skills are high-income skills. This means that they enable you to earn significantly more than you would make with some other skill sets, leading to a lucrative career. And ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

In my first job out of college, I was assigned the task of rewriting the autocomplete feature of a search page. The original code, entombed in a decrepit codebase, was a nauseating monstrosity that ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, recently expressed his views on IT jobs being at risk due to Artificial Intelligence. In a video that has lately been making rounds on social media, Huang asserted ...