About litmus tests for AI coding, like writing game graphics shaders.
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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About litmus tests for AI coding, like writing game graphics shaders.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
A great litmus test for AI is to ask it to write a posteffect GLSL shader for a javascript game engine.
They all fail quite spectacularly at this, at least for my use case (cel shading, outlines, height sensitive fog)