Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree ...

Programmers work on code to find and solve issues. They come up with strategies for enhancing and streamlining code, and they use code to implement company initiatives. While computer programmers ...

Computer programmers will also leverage their expertise to ensure the software is developed in accordance with industry standards and best practices in performance, reliability and security. They also ...

But in the hands of a software developer who knows the code well, the bots could pitch in on some of the grunt work. It makes us wonder if one day the programmer will go the way of the computer.

Buy now-pay later firm Klarna froze hiring last year after partnering with OpenAI on a chatbot that it claimed did the work of 700 full-time employees. There are now fewer computer programmers in ...

But in the hands of a software developer who knows the code well, the bots could pitch in on some of the grunt work. It makes us wonder if one day the programmer will go the way of the computer.

Some studies have indicated that computer programming is particularly at risk, since AI tools can boost productivity and handle some grunt work. Read next BI Tech Memo Where Big Tech secrets go ...

That’s more or less what happened to Graydon Hoare. In 2006, Hoare was a 29-year-old computer programmer working for Mozilla, the open-source browser company. Returning home to his apartment in ...

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