Ask HN: Where is all of the AI coded software?
Like a lot of folks, I'm trying to understand the AI reality vs. the hype cycle. I have my own experiences both using it and seeing it rolled out with a “do more AI” mandate at a huge tech company. Even looking here at discussions we have the full spectrum from engineers who say they don’t code anymore, they just manage agents, to engineers who say they find it basically useless because of how stupid it is.
- ▪Like a lot of folks, I'm trying to understand the AI reality vs. the hype cycle.
- ▪I have my own experiences both using it and seeing it rolled out with a “do more AI” mandate at a huge tech company.
- ▪Even looking here at discussions we have the full spectrum from engineers who say they don’t code anymore, they just manage agents, to engineers who say they find it basically useless because of how stupid it is.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 5,048 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715361 |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:55:08 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-15T16:56:52.845Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-15T16:56:52.845Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | cIzjpeVaJe5O · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Like a lot of folks, I'm trying to understand the AI reality vs. the hype cycle. I have my own experiences both using it and seeing it rolled out with a “do more AI” mandate at a huge tech company. Even looking here at discussions we have the full spectrum from engineers who say they don’t code anymore, they just manage agents, to engineers who say they find it basically useless because of how stupid it is. I’ve been looking for clues (I wanted to use the word “signals" there but I can’t because I don’t want you all to think Claude wrote this) in the market that we can all see, so we don’t have to accept “trust me bro, AI solved coding”.Here’s my question:Where is all of the AI coded software?If coding is a nearly solved problem, if AI is making it so easy to make anything, why aren't we…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.