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Ask HN: Can vibe coding competitions be challenging and fair?
14 points by amichail 1 day ago | 10 comments
If so, how?
willmeyers 1 day 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.
hchak 9 hours ago
We did something like this at my workplace, but it was
vibes to automate common tasks
xdfgh1112 1 day 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 1 day ago
You could have done the whole exercise the week before and merely regenerate/retrace your steps at the live event.
afinlayson 22 hours 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.
heresjohnny 1 day ago
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.
runjake 1 day 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.