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was coding
  • past progressive of code.

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She says that thanks to AI, she is able to code for the first time in her life, and Zuckerberg, who was coding Facebook when she met him, is back coding again.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

As a liberal arts major, I was coding programs in weeks and coding complex procedures in months.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2023

The hardest part, says Layton, was coding the software required to control the hardware, and working out which signals would drive what action.

From Nature • Jul. 23, 2018

Great little biography of the fabulous coding brothers: For John, games have been a lifelong calling, and he was coding before he even owned a computer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2013

He was coding in someone else’s meeting in July because he had just two hours to prepare for a presentation on a new Smule product, code-named “Project Oke.”

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2011