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

2026 Juneyoz-y

About why there are no popular vibe-coded games yet.

Turns out making a game, even with full help of the LLM power is still a massive effort most people won’t go through.

Even simpler but non-trivial programs require a lot of back and forth. So in the end it will be the same kind of motivated people that will be able to produce something good. We’re nowhere near “Claude, build me GTA6”

An AI builds a game like GTA6 from a simple request such as "build me GTA6".

Has this happened?

Yes 13 (9%)Not sure 14 (10%)No 110 (80%)

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