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programmer

[proh-gram-er] / ˈproʊ græm ər /


NOUN
cyberpunk
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“That Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffle commercial is incredible,” says programmer Branscome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

After 60 years of loving to drive, it wasn’t easy to admit that Elon Musk is a better programmer than I am a driver.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

In 2012, a French programmer called Stéphane Gigandet launched a free, online and crowdsourced food product database called Open Food Facts during the Food Revolution Day organised by English chef Jamie Oliver.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

One recruit was Derek Allen, a computer programmer who graduated from high school at 16 and dropped out of college, convinced AI-generated code would turn programming into a dead-end job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

A forgetful programmer might make it count from one to nine, yielding only nine steps instead of ten.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

DeepSeek's systems are open-source, meaning their inner workings are public, allowing programmers to customise parts of the software to suit their needs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

They also said that podcasts, gaming and partnerships with programmers like TF1, a French television network, could bring in more ad revenue and keep people watching longer.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Is there a parallel way to incentivize AI against doing bad things that programmers can’t specify in advance?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The AI agents have been trained to act like collaborative hackers and programmers so are merely mimicking the kinds of emotive comments they have seen.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Finn stared at his own blank computer screen, the picture of the unknown computer programmers seeming to taunt him about everything he didn’t know, everything he was useless at helping the other kids find out.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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