About whether OpenAI's o1 changes how much coding AI can do unassisted.
Has this happened?
Yes 94 (82%)Not sure 7 (6%)No 14 (12%)
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 OpenAI's o1 changes how much coding AI can do unassisted.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Better in niche areas doesn't mean its going to get more use.
Everyone was super hyped about all the "cool" stuff that GPT4 could solve, but in the end, you still can't do things like give it a bunch of requirements for a website, let it run, and get a full codebase back, even though that is well within its capabilities. You have to spend time with prompting in to get it to give you what you want, and in a lot of cases, you are better off just typing the code yourself (because you can visualize the entire project in your head and make the right decisions about how to structure stuff), and using it for small code generations.
This model is not going to radically change that. It will be able to give you some answers that you had to specifically manually prompt before automatically, but there is no advanced reasoning going on.