AI can now turn plain English into working code
Modern coding assistants generate apps and websites straight from a written description, shrinking the gap between an idea and a working product.
Today's briefing: a few timeless things worth knowing about words, language, AI, and puzzles. (Archive edition.)
Modern coding assistants generate apps and websites straight from a written description, shrinking the gap between an idea and a working product.
The newest systems handle text, images, audio, and video together, rather than one kind of input at a time.
Short, regular word challenges keep vocabulary sharp and give your memory a friendly daily workout.
It adds hundreds of new words a year -- from 'doomscrolling' to 'touch grass' -- a living record of how we speak.
Yet any scramble can be solved in 20 moves or fewer -- a limit mathematicians nicknamed 'God's number.'
'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo' is a valid English sentence -- a beloved linguistic brain-teaser.