About whether the AI boom is a bubble about to pop like earlier ones.
Has this happened?
Yes 17 (13%)Not sure 22 (17%)No 89 (70%)
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 the AI boom is a bubble about to pop like earlier ones.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
The final AI push that doesn't lead to a winter will look like a bubble until it hits. We're realistically ~3 years away from fully autonomous software engineering (let's say 99.9% for a concrete target) if we can shift some research and engineering resources towards control, systems and processes. The economic value of that is hard to overstate.