About whether coding challenges could work as CAPTCHAs that Copilot can't solve.
Has this happened?
Yes 93 (72%)Not sure 32 (25%)No 4 (3%)
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 whether coding challenges could work as CAPTCHAs that Copilot can't solve.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Totally wrong, it's garbage.
And there you have it, the difference between real intelligence and regurgitation.
This is the kind of numerically specific coding that could be the basis of a CAPTCHA that CoPilot can't solve. Sixth bit, sixth byte, seventeenth bit, seventeenth byte, etc.