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Is AI "good" yet?

tracking HN sentiment on AI coding

Details

External ID
46851589
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Is AI "good" yet?
Website domain
is-ai-good-yet.com
Launched
Feb. 2, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
16
Upvotes percentile
0.6556603773584906
Tags
—
Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

A survey tracking developer sentiment on AI-assisted coding through Hacker News posts.

Enrichment

Theme
AI coding agents and developer tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
tracking sentiment on ai coding
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes The project scrapes Hacker News posts/comments via the Algolia API, classifies their sentiment using an LLM or standard NLP library, and displays the scores on a Svelte frontend.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Data filtering may include non-developers and managers, Averages not representative of actual expert opinions, Difficulty distinguishing between actual developers and managers

Feature requests: Categorize comments by commenter expertise level, Filter out manager/non-developer responses

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 670 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #197 of 671 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 94 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

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