And software written in these languages used much more memory. So the world of programming became divided, roughly, into two tribes.

What has shocked many who make their living from writing software, however, is that it’s also capable of creating computer code. Tell it to do so, and it will happily create web pages ...

To do so, Mr. Giorgi has his own timesaving helper: an A.I. coding assistant. He taps a few keys and the software tool suggests the rest of the line of code.

AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear.

Agile, by contrast, adopts an iterative and incremental approach. It focuses on delivering smaller, functional product increments in short timeframes (iterations) and the ability to be flexible and ...