Ask HN: Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813403

by amichail • 1 year ago

15 11 1 year ago

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If so, how?

ein0p• 1 year ago

I think they can be, except of course the problems need to be much harder, and impossible to solve via vibe coding alone. Like it or not, AI assistance is going to stay with us. This is the "new baseline" against which engineers will be judged.

amunozo• 1 year ago

I think the same about education. Assignments must be harder now, it is impossible and undesirable to ban AI assistants.

amichail• 1 year ago

Students might complain that their AI assistant was acting unusually dumb just before the assignment deadline.

willmeyers• 1 year ago

Game jams might be interesting, especially 24-hour ones. Someone who uses an LLM to handle some coding tasks can focus on the art and mechanics. I think it would still challenging and fair with vibe coding.

xdfgh1112• 1 year ago

Experienced game designers have a lot of tooling and libraries of previous code they can borrow to make prototypes quickly. AI would level the playing field.

karmakaze• 1 year ago

You could have done the whole exercise the week before and merely regenerate/retrace your steps at the live event.

hchak• 1 year ago

We did something like this at my workplace, but it was vibes to automate common tasks

runjake• 1 year ago

For a good example, check out Pieter Levels’ vibe coding gaming competition from April. There were some really impressive entries. Karpathy was one of the judges.

https://x.com/levelsio

heresjohnny• 1 year ago

Of course. The only thing that’s changed (raised) is the baseline. It’s still hard to come up with a winning idea that’s innovative, creative, and polished. It’s also much easier to go into a rabbit hole you shouldn’t have gone into, which can be quite costly during a competition.

afinlayson• 1 year ago

The Randomness of LLMs make it so 10 people could write the exact same prompts and have wildly different answers.. It's closer to Texas Hold'em than a coding challenge.

obayesshelton• 1 year ago

Google CodeJam meets Vibe Coding?

Ask HN: Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair?

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