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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2023 Marchyosito

About testing GPT-4's code-writing ability on real-world problems.

Once GPT can look at the open issues in my GitHub repos, and submit Pull Requests that legitimately solve the problems, then I'll worry that AI might be coming for my job.

An AI looks at the open issues in a developer's GitHub repos and submits pull requests that legitimately solve them.

Has this happened?

Yes 113 (82%)Not sure 9 (7%)No 15 (11%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.