About whether AI coding tools make the easy parts of programming easier and hard parts harder.
Has this happened?
Yes 11 (11%)Not sure 22 (21%)No 70 (68%)
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 AI coding tools make the easy parts of programming easier and hard parts harder.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I'll vibe code when vibe-coding can make a frontier LLM from scratch.
Meta-circularity is the real test.
After all, I can make new humans :)