[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Can vibe coding competitions be challenging ...
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       Ask HN: Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair?
        
       If so, how?
        
       Author : amichail
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2025-04-27 17:07 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
       | ein0p wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | I think the same about education. Assignments must be harder
         | now, it is impossible and undesirable to ban AI assistants.
        
           | amichail wrote:
           | Students might complain that their AI assistant was acting
           | unusually dumb just before the assignment deadline.
        
       | willmeyers wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
         | You could have done the whole exercise the week before and
         | merely regenerate/retrace your steps at the live event.
        
       | runjake wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
       | 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.
        
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