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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/11/2025 11:34 EDT

What Happens If AI Coding Keeps Improving?

Fast Company's "AI Decoded" newsletter makes the case that the first "killer app" for generative AI... is coding.


Tools like Cursor and Windsurf can now complete software projects with minimal input or oversight from human engineers... Naveen Rao, chief AI officer at Databricks, estimates that coding accounts for half of all large language model usage today. A 2024 GitHub survey found that over 97% of developers have used AI coding tools at work, with 30% to 40% of organizations actively encouraging their

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