About how soon AI that beats humans at programming contests would replace programmers.
Has this happened?
Yes 59 (65%)Not sure 26 (29%)No 6 (7%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About how soon AI that beats humans at programming contests would replace programmers.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Furthermore, suppose such an open source program existed, how long would it take for it to start replacing remote contractors and then in-office programmers?
Until AI can create an Angular application with a .Net Core Azure back-end that meets ever-changing customer requirements ("can we remove the need for Bootstrap 4? Can we make the integration with Active Directory seamless?") on short notice, not very soon at all!
I'm throwing that out there because that's just one of my current projects, but a lot of programmers do things daily that AI simply isn't intended for.
Or college courses, for that matter. Although since you mentioned 10% you probably mean more in the area of research science, which may be a different story.