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Qiuyang Mang
Personal blog · joyemang33.github.io/blogaiprogramming
Qiuyang Mang's personal blog at joyemang33.github.io covers ai and programming. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Humans Still Beat AI in the Long Horizon”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links this post to support the point that humans still beat AI at compounding effort, thanks to their superior plasticity, so learning programming is still worthwhile. No comment judges the writing itself.
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.
A undergraduate student in Testing, Database, Graph.
Most-linked posts?
- Humans Still Beat AI in the Long Horizon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-17
What Hacker News says?
Hm since the discourse is mostly on how AI changes this, I still want to make a point that it's worth learning programming (and more), even if I'm a huge proponent of AI being economically valuable. Humans at the moment are still better at building on our own knowledge and compounding our effort:output ratio, due to our superior plasticity. See https://joyemang33.github.io/blog/2026/humans-dont-just-samp... for a sm…
Comment linking /blog/2026/humans-dont-just-sample/
on “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)”Submitted Humans Still Beat AI in the Long Horizon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Argus: Automated Discovery of Test Oracles for DBMSs Using LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussion