About whether engineers can avoid replacement by LLMs by doing what LLMs can't.
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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether engineers can avoid replacement by LLMs by doing what LLMs can't.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
At BigCos, software engineering is also spending 70% of your day in meetings or handling housekeeping chores in JIRA / Monday / Airtable / Notion / GDocs. I’d love to send an AI agent to meet with PMs to give status updates and take notes if any of their needs change if it could actually do those things efficiently and reliably. Right now, it’d be about the equivalent of having a PM call a phone tree system and leave a voicemail that might get transcribed 85% correctly.