Once again, they didn’t write a single line of code. At first, the outputted script was fairly primitive: Screenshot of ChatGPT producing a first iteration of a VBA script.

Advancements in AI mean that people can create software just by describing it. Consider this your vibe coding primer.

"All of the afore-mentioned code can of course be used in a benign fashion. However, this script can easily be modified to encrypt someone's machine completely without any user interaction.

Dozens of coding "boot camps" have popped up in the past two years, driven by a robust hiring market for people fluent in programming languages, but they have begun toning down what they promise ...