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A software engineer describes a personal experiment begun in February where they stopped writing code manually and instead relied entirely on AI coding agents like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code to implement changes. The account traces how tooling evolved from simple autocomplete suggestions to agents capable of editing multiple files from a single natural-language description, sharply reducing the amount of typing required.
Jotform's CEO, a 20-year software veteran, describes how AI tools that generate functional code from plain-language prompts are letting non-programmers build working prototypes quickly. He argues this approach is especially powerful for creating minimum viable products and automating repetitive coding tasks, though it still requires oversight from someone who understands the underlying logic.
Canonical is funding a three-year PhD project at the University of Bristol's Programming Languages Research Group aimed at automatically converting large C codebases into Rust. UK Research and Innovation is providing matching funds, and the project will be led by student Alex Wood under Professor Meng Wang, with Dr. Cristina David and Canonical's Jon Seager as co-supervisors.