I asked my editors if I could go work at a tech startup. It was an unusual request. But I wanted to learn to vibe-code. My need to know felt urgent. I wanted to survive the future. The pitch process ...

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...

Large language models (LLMs) seemed to arrive in a flash. Monumental productivity gains were promised. Coding assistants flourished. Millions of multi-line code blocks were generated with a key press ...