Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level since 1980, according to data from the Current Population Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The fall correlates ...

In May, a senior official in Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration warned state agency leaders about suspected fraud involving hourly computer programmers.

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.

Microsoft wasn't the only company that was creating programming. Computer makers did, too, although sometimes it was just simple binary.

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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 ...

More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen. Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ...

Yet, while coding as we know it is indeed facing disruption, the creative, problem-solving essence of computer programming is likely to remain a largely human endeavor for the foreseeable future.

Now, the spread of AI programming tools, which can quickly generate thousands of lines of computer code — combined with ...