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		ein0p on April 27, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Can vibe coding competitions be challengin... 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 on April 27, 2025 [–]

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

amichail on April 27, 2025 | [–]

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

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