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Ask HN: Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post?
I was browsing HN comments a while ago and ran into a wonderful blog on the levels of AI involvement in programming. It started at 0 I think, with no AI involved and went to around 7 where LLMs direct other LLMs and no human is involved.
I wanted to reference these levels in the README of an open source project I'm creating as part of it was hand-programmed while using AI as a kind of search engine, while another part was crafted by AI with me reviewing code and providing a spec.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
- asifbc2552 6mo agoSure!
- tuvix 6mo agoDo you happen to have the link?
- gnabgib 6mo agoThe 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering (277 points, 1 month ago, 129 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320614 https://www.bassimeledath.com/blog/levels-of-agentic-engineering https://www.bassimeledath.com/blog/levels-of-agentic-enginee...
- tuvix 6mo agoThank you!
- prkrecovery2 6mo ago[dead]
- late_night_fix 6mo agoI feel like we're moving toward needing a standard for this. "Level of AI involvement" could easily become part of project documentation norms.
- nivertech 6mo agoThe Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from-spicy-autocomplete-to-the-software-factory/ https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from... January 23, 2026 72 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739117 There are several other similar posts/videos. Steve Yegge also talks about it.
- metadat 6mo agoDon't forget the techniques, tactics, and procedures: https://factory.strongdm.ai https://factory.strongdm.ai