# Ask HN: Are functional programmers more upset about how good AI is at coding?

> Source: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234658>
> Published: 2026-08-09 19:14:50+00:00

One might expect this since functional programmers pride themselves on the elegance of their code while programmers using hybrid languages just want to get the code working — elegance of the implementation is not that important to them.

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