Coding
Writing a solution in a programming language, as code that a machine carries out step by step. The solution itself comes from programming, which works it out and states what a correct result is. AI has largely taken over producing code. Programming stays with people, who also check the code against the solution and the correct result.
Where AI saves time
…success saves a lot of time. Code saves the least. AI gets it wrong more often, and coding tasks are short. Outside work, advice on health, money or shopping is the most common use, and it saves fewer hours per conversation than office work.1 At work, AI now…
What is a prompt engineer, really?
…AI works in, because only such a person can tell a good answer from a bad one. In coding with AI agents, sessions of users rated as experts reach verified results more than twice as often as sessions of beginners.17 People who lean on AI can lose skills they no…
Anthropic’s agents outrun its people
…Developers elsewhere hit the same wall. In one study, those using autonomous coding agents submitted about 240% more code changes but released only about 30% more software.2 Its authors put the gap down to human bottlenecks. . At Anthropic, the median…