Coding Is Not Solved: Alex Ewerlöf pushes back on the AI-coding hype on Hacker News
firstSpeaker · hn · 2026-09-28
Alex Ewerlöf published a blog post titled "Coding Is Not Solved," which hit the Hacker News front page. The piece pushes back on the popular narrative that AI has solved programming, examining the real-world limits of AI coding tools in actual software engineering. The HN discussion covers whether AI assistance genuinely improves productivity and how it reshapes engineering practice.
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