About whether learning a foreign language beats learning to code in the AI era.
Has this happened?
Yes 35 (33%)Not sure 32 (30%)No 38 (36%)
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 learning a foreign language beats learning to code in the AI era.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
All the people who choose a foreign language over coding are being vindicated.
AI and tech will never be able to make that look not uncanny in a business or social interaction, whereas it is making a non 10x coder redundant as we speak.