In August of 2010, I was one of the first employees at a small startup called GroupMe. The story seems familiar—a duo of young entrepreneurs started the company and modeled it on a problem they had.

Dear Decoder, Your desire to speak the “language” of machines reminds me of Ted Chiang's short story “The Evolution of Human Science.” The story imagines a future in which nearly all academic ...

With AI doing so much of the coding and software development that’s happening these days, do humans still need to learn all of these computer programming skills? It’s a big question for a lot of ...