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Benedikt Jenik

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Benedikt Jenik's personal blog at bjenik.com covers programming and ai. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How AI based programming could work”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2016–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Benedikt Jenik's post on AI-based programming, which argues that building software with AI is easier than people assume. HN readers cite it when discussing how AI is overhyped.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How AI based programming could work
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-31
  2. How AI based programming could work (2016)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. Reminds me of that article going around HN a few days ago about the ease of AI programming ( http://bjenik.com/AIBasedProgramming/ ) It had a lot of problems, but maybe we really are moving to an era where data analysis consists more of throwing a neural network at it.

    Comment linking /AIBasedProgramming/

    on “AI is always less impressive than is claimed”
  2. Submitted Building a hackable editor in the browser as a story · 112 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How AI based programming could work as a story · 89 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted How AI based programming could work (2016) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Future of Programming as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Mounting python objects as file system as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How AI based programming could work (2016) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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