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An introduction to the most useful special and environment variables in Bash

If you're writing a Bash script, you will invariably need to pass values to it—aka arguments or positional parameters. Bash's ...

How do AI coding agents work? We look under the hood.

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...
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A beginner's introduction to Bash parameter expansions

At a basic level, parameter expansion means changing Bash syntax into a value—expanding it. For example: echo "$foo" This ...
InfoWorld

Writing code is so over

Soon AI agents will be writing better, cleaner code than any mere human can, just like compilers can write better assembly. There’s an old joke about the weather in San Francisco: If you don’t like it ...
Forbes

OpenAI’s New Model Just Got Much Better At Writing More Secure Code

OpenAI’s frontier model may not have astounded when it arrived earlier this year, but research indicates it’s now much better than others at writing code with fewer vulnerabilities. One area where GPT ...
Ars Technica

Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”

Google Gemini has a problem with self-criticism. “I am sorry for the trouble. I have failed you. I am a failure,” the AI tool recently told someone who was using Gemini to build a compiler, according ...
Wired

AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well

One of the best bug-hunters in the world is an AI tool called Xbow, just one of many signs of the coming age of cybersecurity automation. The latest artificial intelligence models are not only ...
Wired

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some ...
The Conversation

AI gives nonprogrammers a boost in writing computer code

Leo Porter receives funding from the National Science Foundation and receives compensation for sales of the book "Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming." Daniel Zingaro receives funding from the ...