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programmer

[proh-gram-er] / ˈproʊ græm ər /


NOUN
cyberpunk
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They formed an unlikely alliance with Abe Connally, a retired computer programmer and Democrat who had already mapped 25 Flock cameras in the county.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Then it became: What if we reached out to Mel and asked if he wanted to put his programmer hat on and take over our calendar and see what he would come up with?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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 programmer I know loves Disney animation; another calls himself a “hardware and sailing geek.”

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Doug Lenat, Cyc’s developer, was always clear about the responsibility programmers had to ensure that their work serves humans, not the other way around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Chinese AI cybersecurity tool Artex said it stopped programmers from accessing its source code, acknowledging misuse by "bad actors" after South Korea linked it to several recent bank hacks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 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

In these early days of the computer revolution, programmers with that kind of specialized experience were hard to find.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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