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I Started Programming When I Was 5. Here’s the Truth About Vibe Coding

Clearly, AI-assisted coding products are experiencing incredible adoption rates, and vibe coding is capturing the imagination ...

OpenAI hires the team behind Xcode coding assistant Alex

The team behind Alex, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode, is ...

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

Microsoft has blown the dust off the source code for a version of Bill Gates' first-ever operating system

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel 8080-powered Altair 8800. As explained in a Microsoft blog, the v ...

Microsoft open sources 6502 BASIC, a key piece of computing history

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...