A guide to APIs, software that helps different apps work together

An application programming interface (API) is software that acts as an intermediary between two programs, helping them ...
Futurism

OpenAI’s New Algorithm Can Turn Written Commands Into Code

OpenAI, the AI research company originally founded by Elon Musk — before he quit in disgust — just unveiled a new algorithm called Codex that can interpret commands written in English and turn them ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio IntelliCode Preview Offers Instant API Code Examples

The first preview of Visual Studio 2022 17.6 boosts GitHub integration and also sees AI-assisted IntelliCode instantly offering up real-world API code examples -- no more context switching required.
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Quick Tip: Install Curl to Speed Up REST API Testing

While mostly known for its use in Linux-based development, the versatile curl tool for transferring data over HTTPS can be a nifty timesaver when using Visual Studio Code on Windows. Specifically, ...
Yahoo Finance

Robinhood CEO says the majority of the company's new code is written by AI, with 'close to 100%' adoption from engineers

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev estimates that "a minority" of the company's new code is written by humans. On the 20VC podcast, Tenev said that it's become difficult to distinguish human-written from ...
Ars Technica

Robots let ChatGPT touch the real world thanks to Microsoft

Last week, Microsoft researchers announced an experimental framework to control robots and drones using the language abilities of ChatGPT, a popular AI language model created by OpenAI. Using natural ...