The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

TL;DR: Use code MARCH15 to get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $42.49 through March 29 (MSRP $499.99). Macs are fantastic machines for development, but if you build software that has to ...

If Apple's AI tech isn't for you, here's how you can disable all or parts of it. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Bypass and Autopilot both suppress manual approval prompts. Autopilot is also designed to answer blocking questions automatically. In testing, that was the clearest visible difference between the two ...

With "vibe coding," almost anyone can be a programmer. Just ask an AI to generate code through a ChatGPT-like conversation, and refine the output. This technique is rapidly becoming a popular way for ...

Claude Code is the tool I was most curious about, having interviewed its founder and tracked its rise in popularity from its June debut. So I called my contacts at Anthropic and told them I wanted to ...