With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding

There’s now a Plugins section in the Codex app that takes users to a searchable library of plugins meant to allow Codex to integrate tightly with some external service or application—examples include ...

Fake VS Code alerts on GitHub spread malware to developers

A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the ...

I built a web page with OpenAI’s Codex in 5 minutes. Here’s how

PCWorld demonstrates how OpenAI’s Codex can generate a complete personal homepage in just 56 seconds using simple prompts and ...
IEEE

Evaluating Python Static Code Analysis Tools Using FAIR Principles

Abstract: The quality of modern software relies heavily on the effective use of static code analysis tools. To improve their usefulness, these tools should be evaluated using a framework that ...
GitHub

Multi‐Project Testing in VS Code

The Python extension now supports multi-project workspaces, where each Python project within a workspace gets its own test tree and Python environment. This document explains how multi-project testing ...
The New York Times

This A.I. Tool Is Going Viral. Five Ways People Are Using It.

Claude Code generates computer code when people type prompts, so those with no coding experience can create their own programs and apps. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco Claude Code, an ...
Futurism

AI Code Is a Bug-Filled Mess

The adoption rate of AI tools has skyrocketed in the programming world, enabling coders to generate vast amounts of code with simple text prompts. Earlier this year, Google found that 90 percent of ...
Hacker

I Stopped Using ChatGPT to Write Code. Here Is What Happened to My Brain.

This story contains AI-generated text. The author has used AI either for research, to generate outlines, or write the text itself. I realized I wasn't a developer anymore. I was just a prompt engineer ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
Microsoft

A beginner’s guide to coding with AI

Start with simple prompts: Type a comment like # create a function to add two numbers and let Copilot generate the code. Use comments to guide the AI: The more specific your comment, the better the ...
Hackaday

Simple Tricks To Make Your Python Code Faster

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...