How to Use programmer in a Sentence

programmer

noun
  • Even so, the episode with the legendary programmer John Carmack has an unhinged director’s-cut feel to it.
    Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Remember, programmers can only watch a film for the first time once.
    John Nein, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • In lieu of a real Neeson programmer to soothe the January blues, Plane will do.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Rather, a human programmer feeds it a vast amount of online data that’s kept on a server.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • There are many types of AI that can be leased without needing to hire a programmer or messing with big data.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Describing the slate in just a few words is both difficult and easy, said senior programmer John Nein.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • So far this year, the track has gotten the fourth-most adds on its radio impact date (the day radio programmers can add a single to rotation).
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Back in the day, limited compute resources forced programmers to write lean code.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
  • After meeting with the Databricks team a decade ago, Horowitz handed the startup $14 million for its Series A to get the ball rolling—a sizable check for a team of academics and programmers.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • On a brisk morning in Düsseldorf, Mario Klingemann, a 53-year-old artist and programmer, boarded a train to Munich.
    Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But the Screen Actors Guild strike has cut to the very core of these festivals’ identities, forcing programmers to create pizazz out of movie choice alone.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Kaleem Aftab, the Red Sea’s international programmer is an old friend of mine and has been following my work since my very first film.
    Martin Dale, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
  • To think like a computer programmer is to step outside of how a human might approach a task and imagine what sort of prompting a machine would need to get the same thing done.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Sports leagues and programmers have embraced streaming as the future of television.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • If the design or wireframe doesn't say ‘user hits a start button to go to the next screen’ many programmers will build both screens but not include a start button because it wasn't asked for.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • From a recorded news report: Ammaar Reshi asked a computer programmer to write a book.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
  • In America, radio programmers don't program you as a Black person as rock 'n' roll.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 May 2023
  • The firm hired many programmers and math majors and had a geeky, collegial culture; late-night chess tournaments were common.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The Web site Stack Overflow was created in 2008 as a place for programmers to answer one another’s questions.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Last year Microsoft released a coding tool that uses GPT to auto-complete chunks of code for a programmer.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Because every department is different as well; a concept artist and a tools programmer are not doing the same work.
    Shannon Liao, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • An even greater staffing challenge now for many operations, though, is programmers.
    Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • But, as Autor says, people would never have guessed a few decades ago at the rise of programmers, statisticians, or social media managers.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2024
  • But the stakes are pretty high this time around, as cable providers aim to rein in programming costs while programmers are dealing with a tougher advertising climate.
    Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2023
  • While programmers use ChatGPT to help them debug their code, for instance, others use it to create malware.
    Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In the kitchen of a co-living space popular with coders and entrepreneurs, Li Bo, a 30-year-old programmer, recalled his own experience with the limits of Dali’s tolerance.
    Gilles Sabrié Vivian Wang, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The actual work product of most programmers is rarely exciting.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Its programmers know what constitutes a midnight movie.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Keanu Reeves is a man who has been seen as the devil, an assassin, an FBI agent, and a computer programmer, usually performing his own stunts (and coding).
    Vulture, 8 Mar. 2023

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