A computer science degree used to be seen as a clear path to a well-paying career. Is it still worth it in an age of AI?

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In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Anthropic, a smaller rival started by OpenAI defectors, has found runaway success with its programming agent, Claude Code.

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Neither an art nor a science, writing software is more akin to carpentry or watchmaking. We’re going to miss it.