Developers Stories for 2025

Surge CEO Says '100x Engineers' Are Here 125
Replit Wiped Production Database, Faked Data to Cover Bugs, SaaStr Founder Says 43
Exhausted Man Defeats AI Model In World Coding Championship 46
Robinhood CEO Says Majority of Company's New Code Written by AI 66
Nearly 3 Out of 4 Oracle Java Users Say They've Been Audited in the Past 3 Years 60
China's Moonshot Launches Free AI Model Kimi K2 That Outperforms GPT-4 In Key Benchmarks 41
Ada Beats SQL, Perl, and Fortan for #10 Spot on Programming Language Popularity Index 111
AI Slows Down Some Experienced Software Developers, Study Finds 58
'Coding is Dead': University of Washington CS Program Rethinks Curriculum For the AI Era 121
Google Replaces Android Developer Preview With Rolling Canary Channel 5
Red Hat Gives Developers Free Access To Enterprise Linux For Business Use 89
Hugging Face Launches $299 Robot That Could Disrupt Entire Robotics Industry 69
Diffusion + Coding = DiffuCode. How Apple Released a Weirdly Interesting Coding Language Model 7
'Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco 179
How Do You Teach Computer Science in the Age of AI? 177
Microsoft Open Sources Copilot Chat for VS Code on GitHub 18
AI Coding Agents Are Already Commoditized 64
The Software Engineering 'Squeeze' 113
Oracle Inks Cloud Deal Worth $30 Billion a Year 23
New NSA/CISA Report Again Urges the Use of Memory-Safe Programming Language 66
After 27 Years, Engineer Discovers How To Display Secret Photo In Power Mac ROM 12
Apple's Swift Coding Language Is Working On Android Support 44
'The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting' 128
Behind the Scenes at the Python Software Foundation 11
RedMonk Ranks Top Programming Languages Over Time - and Considers Ditching Its 'Stack Overflow' Metric 40
Is 'Minecraft' a Better Way to Teach Programming in the Age of AI? 58
Anthropic Deploys Multiple Claude Agents for 'Research' Tool - Says Coding is Less Parallelizable 4
Apple Migrates Its Password Monitoring Service to Swift from Java, Gains 40% Performance Uplift 109
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Asks: Is 'Worse is Better' Still True for Programming Languages? 67
UK Universities Sign $13.3 Million Deal To Avoid Oracle Java Back Fees 30
New Code.org Curriculum Aims To Make Schoolkids Python-Literate and AI-Ready 50
Bill Atkinson, Hypercard Creator and Original Mac Team Member, Dies at Age 74 53
Ask Slashdot: How Important Is It For Programmers to Learn Touch Typing? 191
'For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time' 37
What To Expect From Apple's WWDC 26
Andrew Ng Says Vibe Coding is a Bad Name For a Very Real and Exhausting Job 79
Code.org Changes Mission To 'Make CS and AI a Core Part of K-12 Education' 40
Morgan Stanley Says Its AI Tool Processed 9 Million Lines of Legacy Code This Year And Saved 280,000 Developer Hours 88
AI Startups Revolutionize Coding Industry, Leading To Sky-High Valuations 39
How Stack Overflow's Reputation System Led To Its Own Downfall 103
Amid Turmoil, Stack Overflow Asks About AI, Salary, Remote Work in 15th Annual Developer Survey 10
Is the AI Job Apocalypse Already Here for Some Recent Grads? 117
Will 'Vibe Coding' Transform Programming? 116
GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot 47
Stack Overflow's Radical New Plan To Fight AI-Induced Death Spiral 75
Anthropic CEO Warns AI Could Eliminate Half of All Entry-Level White-Collar Jobs Within Five Years 55
At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun To Resemble Warehouse Work 207
Is AI Turning Coders Into Bystanders in Their Own Jobs? 101
Python Can Now Call Code Written in Chris Lattner's Mojo 26
Java Turns 30 100
Glitch is Basically Shutting Down 7
Microsoft's Edit on Windows is a New Command-Line Text Editor 105
'Rust is So Good You Can Get Paid $20K to Make It as Fast as C' 180
Ask Slashdot: Would You Consider a Low-Latency JavaScript Runtime For Your Workflow? 187
Stack Overflow Seeks Realignment 'To Support the Builders of the Future in an AI World' 58
Curl Warns GitHub About 'Malicious Unicode' Security Issue 69
Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Thanks Its Many Stakeholders - and Mozilla - on Rust's 10th Anniversary 35
OpenAI Launches Codex, an AI Coding Agent, In ChatGPT 12
Carmack: World Could Run on Older Hardware if Software Optimization Was Priority 174
Google Developing Software AI Agent 9
Over 3,200 Cursor Users Infected by Malicious Credential-Stealing npm Packages 30
'Who Needs Rust's Borrow-Checking Compiler Nanny? C++ Devs Aren't Helpless' 160
What Happens If AI Coding Keeps Improving? 135
Developer Tries Resurrecting 47-Year-Old 'Apple Pascal' (and its p-System) in Rust 50
Prompt Engineering is Quickly Going Extinct 81
Tech Leaders Launch Campaign To Make CS and AI a Graduation Requirement 125
FSF Announces Free Software Hackathon Honoring Its 40th Anniversary 6
May is 'Maintainer Month'. Open Source Initiative Joins GitHub to Celebrate Open Source Security 6
Apple, Anthropic Team Up To Build AI-Powered 'Vibe-Coding' Platform 16
Redis Returns To Open Source After Year-Long Proprietary Detour 24
Epic Games Is Launching Webshops To Circumvent App Store Fees 18
Microsoft CEO Says Up To 30% of the Company's Code Was Written by AI 149
EA Lays Off Hundreds, Cancels 'Titanfall' Game 18
AI-Generated Code Creates Major Security Risk Through 'Package Hallucinations' 34
Oracle Engineers Caused Days-Long Software Outage at US Hospitals 56
Canadian University Cancels Coding Competition Over Suspected AI Cheating 40
Devs Sound Alarm After Microsoft Subtracts C/C++ Extension From VS Code Forks 42
AI Tackles Aging COBOL Systems as Legacy Code Expertise Dwindles 76
Arch Linux Is the Latest Distro Replacing Redis with Valkey 34
OpenAI Debuts Codex CLI, an Open Source Coding Tool For Terminals 9
Figma Sent a Cease-and-Desist Letter To Lovable Over the Term 'Dev Mode' 73
You Should Still Learn To Code, Says GitHub CEO 45
Torvalds Celebrates Git's 20th Anniversary. Is It More Famous Than Linux? 114
AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows 43
Python's PyPI Finally Gets Closer to Adding 'Organization Accounts' and SBOMs 1
Oracle Tells Clients of Second Recent Hack, Log-In Data Stolen 16
95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says 130
'There is No Vibe Engineering' 121
Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down To Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments' 28
'No Longer Think You Should Learn To Code,' Says CEO of AI Coding Startup 108
Copilot Can't Beat a 2013 'TouchDevelop' Code Generation Demo for Windows Phone 18
How Rust Finally Got a Specification - Thanks to a Consultancy's Open-Source Donation 16
Microsoft Announces 'Hyperlight Wasm': Speedy VM-Based Security at Scale with a WebAssembly Runtime 18
DOGE To Rewrite SSA Codebase In 'Months' 338
Oracle Health Breach Compromises Patient Data At US Hospitals 5
Oracle Customers Confirm Data Stolen In Alleged Cloud Breach Is Valid 20
OpenAI CEO Altman Says AI Will Lead To Fewer Software Engineers 163
FaunaDB Shuts Down But Hints At Open Source Future 13
How AI Coding Assistants Could Be Compromised Via Rules File 31
US Programming Jobs Plunge 27.5% in Two Years 104
'Vibe Coding' is Letting 10 Engineers Do the Work of a Team of 50 To 100, Says YC CEO 159
Sobering Revenue Stats of 70K Mobile Apps Show Why Devs Beg For Subscriptions 50
Codon Python Compiler Gets Faster - and Changes to Apache 2 License 4
Why Microsoft's Developers are Porting TypeScript to Go 49
JPMorgan Engineers' Efficiency Jumps as Much as 20% From Using Coding Assistant 32
AI Coding Assistant Refuses To Write Code, Tells User To Learn Programming Instead 96
IBM CEO Doesn't Think AI Will Replace Programmers Anytime Soon 58
OpenAI Pushes AI Agent Capabilities With New Developer API 8
Developer Convicted For 'Kill Switch' Code Activated Upon His Termination 88
Adafruit Successfully Automates Arduino Development Using 'Claude Code' LLM 22
Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues? 99
Malicious PyPI Package Exploited Deezer's API, Orchestrates a Distributed Piracy Operation 24
27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next? 150
Perl's CPAN Security Group is Now a CNA, Can Assign CVEs 10
Google Calls for Measurable Memory-Safety Standards for Software 44
The Reality of Long-Term Software Maintenance 46
ExpressVPN Gets Faster and More Secure, Thanks To Rust 55
Google Makes Gemini Code Assist Free 39
Anthropic Launches the World's First 'Hybrid Reasoning' AI Model 18
Greg Kroah-Hartman Supports Rust in the Kernel 82
Rust Developer Survey Finds Increasing Usage, Especially on Linux 26
Torvalds: Rust Kernel Code Isn't Forced In Over Maintainers' Objections 137
AI Is Prompting an Evolution, Not Extinction, for Coders 73
Software Engineering Job Openings Hit Five-Year Low 61
AI Can Write Code But Lacks Engineer's Instinct, OpenAI Study Finds 76
'New Junior Developers Can't Actually Code' 220
Are Fast Programming Languages Gaining in Popularity? 163
Oracle's Ellison Calls for Governments To Unify Data To Feed AI 105
Brave Now Lets You Inject Custom JavaScript To Tweak Websites 12
This Was CS50: Crying Poor, Yale To Stop Offering Harvard's Famed CS50 Course 50
What Do Linux Kernel Developers Think of Rust? 42
C++ on Steroids: Bjarne Stroustrup Presents Guideline-Enforcing 'Profiles' For Resource and Type Safety 71
Google's 7-Year Slog To Improve Chrome Extensions Still Hasn't Satisfied Developers 30
Oracle Starts Laying Mines In JavaScript Trademark Battle 36
NetChoice Sues To Block Maryland's Kids Code, Saying It Violates the First Amendment 27
Should We Sing the Praises of Agile, or Bury It? 235
Slashdot Asks: Do You Remember Your High School's 'Computer Room'? 192
Oracle Faces Java Customer Revolt After 'Predatory' Pricing Changes 136
UK Council Sells Assets To Fund Ballooning $50 Million Oracle Project 83
Microsoft Takes on MongoDB with PostgreSQL-Based Document Database 23
New Michigan Law Requires High Schools to Offer CS Classes 66
Oracle and US Investors (Including Microsoft) Discuss Taking Control of TikTok in the US 53
Epic Games To Cover Developer iOS Fees 9
IMDb Founder Steps Down As CEO After 35 Years 24
Node.js 'Type Stripping' for TypeScript Now Enabled by Default 63
Google Reports Halving Code Migration Time With AI Help 12
AI Slashes Google's Code Migration Time By Half 74
Replit CEO on AI Breakthroughs: 'We Don't Care About Professional Coders Anymore' 168
EU Probes Apple's New App Store Fees 43
Oracle Won't Withdraw 'JavaScript' Trademark, Says Deno. Legal Skirmish Continues 68
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Transfer Legacy PHP Code to a Modern Framework? 112
Database Tables of Student, Teacher Info Stolen From PowerSchool In Cyberattack 18
StackOverflow Usage Plummets as AI Chatbots Rise 66
Pre-Lunch Coffee Drinkers Enjoy Lower Risk of Death, Analysis Finds 83
Should First-Year Programming Students Be Taught With Python and Java? 175
New System Auto-Converts C To Memory-Safe Rust, But There's a Catch 75