Ruby sinking in popularity, buried by Python – Tiobe

The Ruby language has been around since 1995 and still gets regular releases. But the language has dropped to 30th place in this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity, with Python cited as a reason for Ruby’s drop. Ruby was the Tiobe language of the year in 2006,...

Coding for agents

Large language models (LLMs) and AI agents aren’t important to software engineering because they can write code at superhuman speeds. Without the right guardrails, as I’ve highlighted, that speed simply translates into mass-produced technical debt. No, agentic coding...

19 large language models for safety or danger

Everyone working on artificial intelligence these days fears the worst-case scenario. The precocious LLM will suddenly glide off the rails and start spouting dangerous thoughts. One minute it’s a genius that’s going to take all our jobs, and the next it’s an odd crank...