Has good old COBOL run its course?

COBOL was associated with the Y2K phenomenon at the turn of the century, a software problem arising from the inability of ...
InfoQ

How WebAssembly Components Enable Safe and Portable Software Extensions

ABI and scripting to the Wasm Component Model (WASI Preview 2). He shares how to build secure plugin systems that run at near ...
IEEE

On the need to perform comprehensive evaluations of automated program repair benchmarks: Sorald case study

Abstract: In supporting the development of high-quality software, especially necessary in the era of LLMs, automated program repair (APR) tools aim to improve code quality by automatically addressing ...
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Developers Lean on AI More, But Report Growing Doubts About Accuracy, Stack Overflow Survey Says

AI tool adoption is high and continues to climb. The survey shows most developers are now using AI assistants in their workflow or plan to soon, with daily and weekly use becoming routine. Trust is ...
Futurism

AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow

Since 2008, Stack Overflow has been an immensely helpful resource for developers, allowing them to crowdsource answers to their coding questions — and resulting in a vast online repository of coding ...
Digit

Stack Overflow is dying: Blame it on ChatGPT and AI coding tools

Stack Overflow wasn’t just a help desk; it was a living archive of new problems. If everyone stops posting questions because AI solves them privately, the public “knowledge stream” dries up. We are ...
Datacenter Dynamics

Stack Overflow fully exits data centers

Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer website for computer programmers, has officially exited its data center in New Jersey as part of its cloud migration effort. In a blog post published at the end ...
Computer Weekly

Stack Overflow: The invisible platform engineer: why developers still need human interaction

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter O’Connor, Senior ...
SiliconANGLE

Stack Overflow launches AI Assist chatbot for developers

Stack Exchange Inc., the company behind the leading developer resource Stack Overflow, today announced the public launch of its new AI Assist feature. The company says it provides users with access to ...
theregister

Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity'

Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework. Developers are sometimes drawn to building ...
VentureBeat

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of 'almost right' AI code

More developers than ever before are using AI tools to both assist and generate code. While enterprise AI adoption accelerates, new data from Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey exposes a critical ...