About whether AI has broken the usual signals of human expertise.
Has this happened?
Yes 22 (17%)Not sure 45 (34%)No 64 (49%)
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 has broken the usual signals of human expertise.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I disagree that AI has broken the proxies.
Football analogy; AI is the wide receiver and the human is the quarterback. Even if you're the best WR in the game you're still not producing touchdowns unless you have a decent QB.
It's super easy to smell vibe coded projects.
All of these proofs and vibe code are impossible without human work. Call me when GPT whatever writes gcc from scratch