That’s possible because such languages get translated into machine code by software called compilers. “When I started coding in the ’80s and ’90s, you still had to know how a CPU worked ...

AI-powered vibe coding tools have become an equalising force in the programming space, but there's more to it than meets the eye.

Hundreds of thousands of developers use Codeium’s AI coding tools to generate code and fix bugs. A new coding engine can let them make tweaks to massive codebases in a matter of seconds.

“Machines can’t be creative; at best, they’re very elaborate derivatives,” says Ben Royce, an AI lecturer at Columbia University. Chatbots don’t know what to do with a novel coding problem.