About an autonomous AI coding run that built a rough browser engine.
Has this happened?
Yes 79 (62%)Not sure 22 (17%)No 26 (20%)
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 an autonomous AI coding run that built a rough browser engine.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
It's obvious by now that AI can write a whole bunch of code approximating all kinds of things. So there is no reason anymore for this to impress anyone.
A well-architected POC built in a week with a clear path to scaling it to a full implementation down the line would be impressive, but that's not what this is.
The current code output is basically throw-away level quality AI hallucinated BS.