MIT Technology Review January 16, 2026
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AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.
Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented productivity boost or churning out masses of poorly designed code that saps their attention and sets software projects up for serious long term-maintenance problems.
The problem is right now, it’s not easy to know which is true.
As tech giants pour billions into large language models (LLMs), coding has been touted as the technology’s killer app. Executives enamored...
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