How to Use programmer in a Sentence

programmer

noun
  • Our programmer would still be hired to build a game.
    Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Yet the programmer was paid only to build a game.
    Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In other words, programmers can check it and play around with it.
    John Seiler, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Vibe coding can help programmers ship faster, but why stop there?
    Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026
  • Some programmers see a cliff-edge coming, too.
    Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026
  • That is a really great thing for a programmer to have.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But programmers do this kind of sharing all the time in their software.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2022
  • What’s the role of the programmer in a future without source code?
    Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
  • And, if such a void exists, why aren't programmers rushing to fill it?
    refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
  • As a programmer, what genres best lend themselves most to this?
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
  • The programmer seems to have been a little careless.
    PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And his approach differs from that of film programmers.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 19 Mar. 2026
  • But a maker—say, a programmer or writer—needs at least half a day to get real work done.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • And went home to be a computer programmer.
    Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
  • However, programmers have been trying to find ways to keep leaked source code up.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
  • A lot of ink has been spilled on the programmers who got replaced by AI agents.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 25 June 2026
  • The picture shifts slightly for programmers and those who use it for business.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Remember, programmers can only watch a film for the first time once.
    John Nein, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Initially, the single programmer was just as good as the teams.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2021
  • But ten times more capital and ten times the number of programmers does not get you ten times more lines of code.
    Martin Casado, Fortune, 20 May 2026
  • Rather, a human programmer feeds it a vast amount of online data that’s kept on a server.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Contrast that to the rush to recruit coders during the tech boom and all the perks offered to programmers.
    Leonardo Bevilacqua, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2024
  • But these were the questions facing programmers in the late ‘90s.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The premium programmer now has more than two-thirds of its subscriber base in streaming.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Robert grew up in San Jose, where his dad worked as a computer programmer.
    Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • For the lead programmer and her team, the selection process began last June.
    cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The programmers have left the building, and the guardrails have fallen from its scaffolding.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 Nov. 2025
  • But programmers still need to handcraft the rules that tell the computer how to create such content.
    Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 9 May 2018
  • Huet said this means that programmers will be able to reprogram apps in real-time in response to user needs.
    Ashley Capoot,kif Leswing, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Track how much time your programmers spend on programming tasks that could and should be automated.
    Russ Bukowski, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

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