About whether AI will soon overcome the difficulties of software engineering.
Has this happened?
Yes 88 (77%)Not sure 10 (9%)No 17 (15%)
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 AI will soon overcome the difficulties of software engineering.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
An AI being able to create arbitrary computer programs and work productively in an arbitrary codebase sounds basically like an AGI or something approximating it. Not sure if that's what you're implying is a few years away. I do think it's inevitable, but the time horizon still doesn't seem clear to me at all