Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...

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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

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At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.

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How can rigorous research inform policies against ethnic and racial-based discrimination in Latin America and the Caribbean?

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