In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters. New episodes come out every two weeks.

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon. The C programming language has been ...

Python proves popular once again. Discover the best programming languages to learn for high-demand jobs in 2025. Developers who want to push ahead in their profession will want to choose a programming ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

I want to change CV's from my accessory decoder on the main track. How do I do that? I can change the values with success on the programming track, but not on the main. I am using Engine Driver for ...

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most widely used programming language on GitHub, driven largely by the ongoing generative AI boom, the developer platform reports. The shift reflects Python's ...

Large language models (LLMs) have changed the game for machine translation (MT). LLMs vary in architecture, ranging from decoder-only designs to encoder-decoder frameworks. Encoder-decoder models, ...