Abstract: Repository-level code completion aims to generate code for unfinished code snippets within the context of a specified repository. Existing approaches mainly rely on retrievalaugmented ...

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Reinforcement Learning is at the core of building and improving frontier AI models and products. Yet most state-of-the-art RL methods learn primarily from outcomes: a scalar reward signal that says ...

In reinforcement learning (RL), an agent learns to achieve its goal by interacting with its environment and learning from feedback about its successes and failures. This feedback is typically encoded ...

AI agents are reshaping software development, from writing code to carrying out complex instructions. Yet LLM-based agents are prone to errors and often perform poorly on complicated, multi-step tasks ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

Andrew Ng urged everyone to learn coding using AI-assisted 'vibe coding' tools. AI-powered coding has lowered barriers to coding, he said. He joins tech leaders like Nvidia and Klarna CEOs in touting ...

In some ways, Java was the key language for machine learning and AI before Python stole its crown. Important pieces of the data science ecosystem, like Apache Spark, started out in the Java universe.

Recent years have seen a huge shift to online services. By necessity, remote jobs have skyrocketed, and the tech industry has ballooned. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, software developer ...

AI coding tools are getting better fast. If you don’t work in code, it can be hard to notice how much things are changing, but GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 have made a whole new set of developer tricks ...