Opinion Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that’s a good thing . Meanwhile, real life AI coding tools make coders less productive while spreading the hallucination that they’re more so.

Can something that makes life worse for the workers building the digital world turn around so completely? Put into historical context, it looks not only inevitable but essential.

The proper place to start is, as so often, with "Amazing" Grace, or Rear Admiral Grace Hopper as she was more properly known. Seventy years ago, she began work on the first high-level computer language designed to create data processing programs through English-like words rather than equation-esque symbols. The res

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