About whether LLMs will soon autonomously design, code and distribute whole apps.
Has this happened?
Yes 98 (80%)Not sure 15 (12%)No 9 (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 whether LLMs will soon autonomously design, code and distribute whole apps.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
To be fair, most coding problems are not novel problems.
I’ll be more impressed if chatGPT can take a large, poorly maintained, poorly documented codebase and make meaningful changes to it.
Far easier to write something from scratch than to modify something that was first written in Fortran in 1991.