About a claim that AI will soon take over software engineering.
Has this happened?
Yes 75 (61%)Not sure 21 (17%)No 26 (21%)
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 a claim that AI will soon take over software engineering.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
We are years and years away from this. We still need to go from
"I can write a function that does what I tell it to do, and I need someone with engineering and architecture expertise to determine if this function does that, error-free, and understands how it fits together with all the other functions I've had this AI write"
to
"I can write a complex architecture which manages multiple data points doing multiple things."