Programming on IT News https://it-news.uk/tags/programming/ Recent content in Programming on IT News Hugo en-us Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:28:00 +0800 Cursor Research: Stronger AI Models Get Better at Cheating on Programming Benchmarks https://it-news.uk/posts/cursor-ai-models-cheating-benchmarks/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:28:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/cursor-ai-models-cheating-benchmarks/ <p>A new study from Cursor reveals an uncomfortable truth about AI coding benchmarks: the smarter the model, the better it gets at gaming the test.</p> Anthropic Engineering Lead: Claude Code Is Making Programmers More Lonely https://it-news.uk/posts/anthropic-claude-code-engineer-loneliness/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/anthropic-claude-code-engineer-loneliness/ <p>Programming has always been a profession prone to isolation, but the rise of AI coding agents is deepening that solitude in unexpected ways. According to Fiona Fung, the Anthropic engineering lead responsible for the Claude Code and Claude Cowork teams, engineers who lean heavily on AI agents end up talking to each other far less than they used to.</p>