In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

Schools operate on a factory model invented when we actually needed factory workers. In any given classroom, there were twenty-odd kids with one teacher giving everyone the same lesson at the same ...

These start-ups, including Axiom Math and Harmonic, both in Palo Alto, Calif., and Logical Intelligence in San Francisco, hope to create A.I. systems that can automatically verify computer code in ...