Ask HN: Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair?
15•amichail•9mo ago
If so, how?
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ein0p•9mo 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•9mo ago
I think the same about education. Assignments must be harder now, it is impossible and undesirable to ban AI assistants.
amichail•9mo ago
Students might complain that their AI assistant was acting unusually dumb just before the assignment deadline.
willmeyers•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
You could have done the whole exercise the week before and merely regenerate/retrace your steps at the live event.
hchak•9mo ago
We did something like this at my workplace, but it was
vibes to automate common tasks
runjake•9mo 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.
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•9mo 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.
ein0p•9mo ago
amunozo•9mo ago
amichail•9mo ago