Show HN: Vibe-coder ladder round 2 – the AI ran 38 minutes past the deadline
Round 2 · Four in a Row · 19 September 2026 Fourteen minutes, three prompts, and the season is level. The task, secret until 17:00 CET, was Connect Four against a computer opponent in one HTML file: seven by six, at least two genuinely different difficulty levels, win and draw detection with a clear announcement, a new-game control, and on the harder setting the computer has to actually try to win. 22seats claimed 6opened the task 2submitted 2passed the smoke test Result #EntrantToolSeasonEntry 1@schwarzkopfbOpenCode, GPT-5.6 Sol1100 · 1-1open the app 2@P1s0Claude + ChatGPT1100 · 1-1open the app Both entries passed all five items of the functional checklist, no network violations, no injection attempts.
- ▪Round 2 · Four in a Row · 19 September 2026 Fourteen minutes, three prompts, and the season is level.
- ▪The task, secret until 17:00 CET, was Connect Four against a computer opponent in one HTML file: seven by six, at least two genuinely different difficulty levels, win and draw detection with a clear announcement, a new-game control, and on
- ▪22seats claimed 6opened the task 2submitted 2passed the smoke test Result #EntrantToolSeasonEntry 1@schwarzkopfbOpenCode, GPT-5.6 Sol1100 · 1-1open the app 2@P1s0Claude + ChatGPT1100 · 1-1open the app Both entries passed all five items of t
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| Original publisher | VIBELADDER |
| Canonical URL | https://vibeladder.dev/results/r2.html |
| Publication time | Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:02:23 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-23T15:09:30.654Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-23T15:09:30.654Z |
| 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 | A-545uEd1X1c · 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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Round 2 · Four in a Row · 19 September 2026 Fourteen minutes, three prompts, and the season is level. Round 2 ran on Saturday. The task, secret until 17:00 CET, was Connect Four against a computer opponent in one HTML file: seven by six, at least two genuinely different difficulty levels, win and draw detection with a clear announcement, a new-game control, and on the harder setting the computer has to actually try to win. Same two entrants as Round 1. Different result. 22seats claimed 6opened the task 2submitted 2passed the smoke test Result #EntrantToolSeasonEntry 1@schwarzkopfbOpenCode, GPT-5.6 Sol1100 · 1-1open the app 2@P1s0Claude + ChatGPT1100 · 1-1open the app Both entries passed all five items of the functional checklist, no network violations, no injection attempts.
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