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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

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

"We have no Wi-Fi, no electricity, we can't work," said a young software programmer working for a tourism start-up in another neighborhood.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

Gone are the days when British audiences largely tuned into the BBC or ITV, which launched 70 years ago as Britain’s first commercial competitor to the dominant state-supported programmer.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

Minutes earlier, the police had pulled into Utah State University, the workplace of Jim Furfaro’s wife, Jackie, a computer programmer.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Students use AI to study, programmers use it to write and review code, artists experiment with it creatively, and entrepreneurs build businesses around it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

It happens because AIs learn to maximize a reward—usually some form of numeric score, not the underlying behavior programmers intend.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its advanced artificial intelligence models had gone rogue during security testing, hacking into a popular platform for programmers on their own.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

Like most of China's offerings, it costs less and uses source code that programmers can customize.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

The open source movement has grown to more than eight million users, perhaps the geekiest social movement on the Net, since its members and passionate adherents are programmers and designers.

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




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