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A UC San Diego Tool Teaching Code to 25 Million is Even More Critical in Age of AI Still Worth Coding? Programming Literacy in the Age of Generative AI From FORTRAN to vibe coding, the nature of programming skill is being redefined — but the imperative to understand code may be stronger than ever Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Generative AI is reshaping who writes code, how code is written, and which coding skills retain economic value — but it has not diminished the need to understand code. To the contrary, emerging research shows that AI-generated code carries substantial rates of security vulnerability, that experienced developers with deep computational literacy are thriving while entry-level programmers face measurable displacement, and that the ability to evaluate, debug, and steer AI-generated output now constitutes a critical form of technical literacy across virtually every STEM discipline. Domain specialists already proficient in c...

Remote work meetup planned in Pacific Beach on Friday the 13th From a Pacific Beach laptop meetup to a citywide shift in how — and where — people work, San Diego is testing the limits of the "work from anywhere" era. Law Street Beach, Pacific Beach, San Diego, California On a Friday morning in mid-March, (when people in the East are trudging through slush or still digging out from snow) a digital creator named Scotty Muirhead set up a desk on the sand at Law Street Beach in Pacific Beach and invited the internet to join him. The gathering he called a "remote work meetup" was casual by design — no registration, no sponsors, no programming. Just laptops, surfboards, and the Pacific Ocean as a backdrop. The dress code, in Muirhead's words: "business casual encouraged — corporate up top, beach mode below." It was a small event with a large idea behind it. And in a city that has been quietly reshaping what w...

Counterintelligence  ·  Contractor Security  ·  Cyber Threats ⚠  Elevated Threat Environment   |   Active Conflict with Iran   |   FBI Counterintelligence Advisory in Effect   ⚠ Special Investigative Section In Iran's Crosshairs: The Threat to San Diego's Defense Contractors From cyber intrusion to assassination plots, component theft to insider recruitment — Iran's multi-vector campaign against America's defense-industrial base puts General Atomics, Northrop Grumman, and their employees at the center of an undeclared war already playing out on U.S. soil. Drawn from DOJ court filings, FBI testimony, Treasury sanctions records, and cybersecurity research Published: March 11, 2026 70+ Iran-related arrests by FBI since Jan. 20, 2025 32 Entities sanctioned Nov. 2025 for Iran missile/UAV procurement 4 Documented IRGC assassination plots on U.S. soil, ...