About whether ChatGPT's coding tools really count as programming.
Has this happened?
Yes 93 (72%)Not sure 9 (7%)No 27 (21%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether ChatGPT's coding tools really count as programming.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
These AI tools are able to do a small subset of what a professional human is able to do, with greatly reduced flexibility, e.g. tasks like leetcode where there is an abundance of concentrated training data.
I would bet that the current paradigm in ChatGPT will never be able to replace a minimally competent human at real world programming - the kind of programs people actually pay for. Let’s see.