The instructions a programmer writes when creating a program. Lines of code are the "source code" of the program, and one line may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the ...

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The era of the AI "Copilot", a helpful assistant that writes a few lines of code while you watch, might already be ending. In ...

One of the most insightful articles that I have read (in terms of both general daily life and a software development career) is Steven Kerr’s On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B. In this ...

Last weekend, some anonymous “specialist” told the New York Times that “5 million lines of software code may need to be rewritten” in order to fix the mess that is healthcare.gov. (The good news, ...

Google share stats on the volume of code it manages and, not surprisingly, it’s a whole heck of a lot Software code, it seems, is all around us today. It’s in obvious places like your computer, tablet ...

While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...