AI Roundtable
Hacker ApprovedDebate tool in AI tools
Recommended for watching several AI models debate a question and show their reasoning. Critics say it measures persuasion more than accuracy, and that free use runs out quickly.
Recommended for watching several AI models debate a question and show their reasoning. Critics say it measures persuasion more than accuracy, and that free use runs out quickly.
32 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 28
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 28 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Watching AI models debate each other
“Seeing arguments from multiple sides is also quite nice, give it a spin!”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question” “Enjoyable for sure. Had fun watching the debate amongst AIs”
Comment from 26 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question” “The debate round feature is the most compelling part”
Comment from 26 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question” - Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question”
- Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Roundtable – A rubber duck that argues with itself”
Fun to play with
“Fun little toy, tried to ask it some post-modern philosophy questions”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question” “Enjoyable for sure. Had fun watching the debate amongst AIs”
Comment from 26 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question” “Really cool idea and great execution. I had some fun”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question” - Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question”
Useful for research and challenging ideas
“forced a synthesis that was much more robust than any single AI (or human) would have given me”
Comment from 26 Jan 2026 on Hacker News “I've had great experience using it for research, debates and constructive criticism.”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question” “I found it useful for challenging”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question” Reasoning and transcripts worth reading
“I have had quite some interesting reads just looking at the reasoning to be honest”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question” “Very interesting to read the transcripts.”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Costly once free trial ends
“That's very expensive and not super useful to be honest.”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question” “free trial ran out quite quickly”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Show HN: A multi-model interface where LLMs discuss & argue with each other”
What people said
37 of the 44 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Our protections aren't just "trust us", we show you how your data is controlled architecturally and secure.”
“The key advantage of this is isolated input domains which prevent context bloat”
“it's free to use until community credits run out”
“free trial ran out quite quickly”
“Try it yourself with a roundtable discussion”
“I especially like the poll functionality for a quick result on where the models land.”
“the real value unlock is MCP integration”
“It's now live, give it a spin!”
“the latest update on the roundtable history list seems to work well and the good ones are on top”
“The debate round feature is the most compelling part”
“Enjoyable for sure. Had fun watching the debate amongst AIs”
“It would have been great to enable user to make their questions private though.”
“Lots of fun questions! Can you make it so that I can open each one in a new tab?”
“The focus on the disagreements is useful.”
“doesn't have a single piece of information about who's running it”
“way more useful as a live benchmark for model priors, bias, and convergence under shared context”
“I've had great experience using it for research, debates and constructive criticism.”
“left pleasantly surprised”
“Very interesting use case and a slick interface.”
“I have had quite some interesting reads just looking at the reasoning to be honest”
“Fun little toy, tried to ask it some post-modern philosophy questions”
“Seeing arguments from multiple sides is also quite nice, give it a spin!”
“What you're measuring is performance on persuasion, not on accuracy or clarity.”
“That's very expensive and not super useful to be honest.”
“Really cool idea and great execution. I had some fun”
“It’s really interesting to have it turned into a website like this.”
“Been enjoying playing with this.”
“This is quite impressive, really.”
“I found it useful for challenging”
“Clean separation between Gemini Pro and the other answers”
“Oh lord, imagine asking ”serious” questions”
“Very interesting to read the transcripts.”
“seems like it is a good idea?”
“forced a synthesis that was much more robust than any single AI (or human) would have given me”
“The personas were brutal in the best possible way.”
“Tried it out, pretty neat.”
“the internal debate is pretty helpful”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.