Goalposts

Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

About AI agents for financial services and insurance, and AI filing taxes.

This is my litmus test.

If AI is really as wonderous as everybody says, why didn't all the employees of all the AI companies simply type "Claude, file my taxes for me" as a prompt and walk away?

An AI files a person's taxes from the single prompt "file my taxes for me", with no further help.

Has this happened?

Yes 21 (15%)Not sure 35 (26%)No 80 (59%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.