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programmer

[proh-gram-er] / ˈproʊ græm ər /


NOUN
cyberpunk
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“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

"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

You want to be an engineer, a computer programmer, a secretary, a doctor, a lawyer, a caterer, a gardener, a construction worker, or whatever.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

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

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

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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