Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia
There have been, increasingly, a large number of posts [1] on HN in the past few weeks, where developers are slowly coming to terms with the breakneck speed with which Agentic Coding has advanced in the past few months. We all agree that an average software developer today is closely resembling the horse-carriage just when automobiles were becoming mainstream around 120 years ago. And coming to HN daily and finding at least one such lament from a software engineer is becoming quite tiresome. We
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2026-10-27 12:45:23.150Z
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Source account: There have been, increasingly, a large number of posts [1] on HN in the past few weeks, where developers are slowly coming to terms with the breakneck speed with which Agentic Coding has advanced in the past few months. We all agree that an average software developer today is closely resembling the horse-carriage just when automobiles were becoming mainstream around 120 years ago. And coming to HN daily and finding at least one such lament from a software engineer is becoming quite tiresome. We
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Recorded author: justforfunhere. Source votes: 2 votes (Oct 27, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “Ask HN: Is there hope against slop?” (Hacker News, Nov 13, 2026); “[问与答] 威科夫分析 agent: 自动画线标注股票分析” (V2EX, Nov 12, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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