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New comment by veesahni in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

veesahni — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:23:32 +0000

Exploring effective (hype-free) usage of AI in customer communications. https://enchant.com

New comment by veesahni in "Back with v2! My 9 year old updated The Gamey Game based on your feedback"

veesahni — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 02:47:59 +0000

great ideas Luke!

New comment by veesahni in "Back with v2! My 9 year old updated The Gamey Game based on your feedback"

veesahni — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:40:42 +0000

there are incredible tools available today, the child just needs the will.

New comment by veesahni in "Back with v2! My 9 year old updated The Gamey Game based on your feedback"

veesahni — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:17:33 +0000

There are sound effects for successful attacks. Every character has a unique attack sound!

New comment by veesahni in "Back with v2! My 9 year old updated The Gamey Game based on your feedback"

veesahni — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:18:17 +0000

My son has been learning to code. Today he’s releasing v2 of his math battle game, The Gamey Game. He’s excited to share it with you all!

The Gamey Game v2: https://www.armaansahni.com/game-v2

He’s also written a blog post about how he made this game: https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-took-the-gamey-game-to-the...

He originally released v1 of the game a few months ago and got great feedback from this community. A big thank you for the feedback, it led to some great conversations and provided a ton of motivation for him to keep moving forward.

v2 was built using HTML, JS, CSS. All written by hand in VSCode. No frameworks, no build steps. He made all the graphics himself and also recorded all the audio.

Note that both parents are programmers so he has lots of hints and guidance along the way. He also leverages Google Gemini to answer coding questions (syntax, how to do something, etc), but the LLM isn’t coding for him and it isn’t available to him directly in his editor.

For the blog post, we talked about the target audience and came up with an outline. He then dictated his blog post directly into Google Docs. Finally, we went through a few rounds of feedback/edits (for more clarity, more words, etc).

Back with v2! My 9 year old updated The Gamey Game based on your feedback

veesahni — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:18:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.armaansahni.com/game-v2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622819

Points: 4

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New comment by veesahni in "The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia"

veesahni — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:33:10 +0000

Reasoning models are a result of the learnings from CoT prompting.

New comment by veesahni in "JSON5 – JSON for Humans"

veesahni — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 03:14:30 +0000

This is very close to what the ruby REPL will accept.

I tried to paste in the kitchen sink - it didn't like dangling decimals and the comment format, everything else worked as expected.

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:05:52 +0000

Software is pretty cool from that perspective. Creative, intellectually stimulating & pays well. It helps that software powers everything now.

If he does choose to pursue this in the future, he'll have a strong start. There's still a question of what changes will come to the industry as a result of AI.

Appreciate the comments!

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 23:59:54 +0000

Welll.......... before the game, he made this: https://www.armaansahni.com/pokemon/

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:49:45 +0000

Kids dad here. There's no doubt he had a ton of guidance - both parents are experienced programmers. Many things needed explaining to a 9yo, the same things that would have needed explaining to any new developer.

We went through MANY iterations (test-play/code-review + feedback + dev) before it was released to the public, which meant there was a lot of discussions and lots of opportunities for him to correct many small issues.

Some thoughts:

* DOCTYPE & meta utf-8 - he learned from Khan academy

* meta viewport - I showed him how to test for mobile and pushed to make mobile a priority

* const/let/backticks - he uses prettier in VSCode, which does this automatically

* code modularization - as a result of discussions around maintainability

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:12:49 +0000

I believe what he's created is remarkable for his age, and thus worth sharing. The way he used the LLM is very interesting, even to an adult audience.

The feedback received has been incredibly valuable. Not just for improving the game, but also for sparking conversations at home about game mechanics, color balance, coding standards, and even broader concepts like design and flow.

Ultimately, I'm showing him how we do things in the real world - build it, write about it, make sense of the feedback, and iterate.

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:14:59 +0000

I posted on HN back then also

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:53:20 +0000

Lol, he actually imagined some sort first-person 3d game, So yes, its entirely possible. We'll see where his interests take him.

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:18:14 +0000

Improving clarity around charging is on his plan. Its a big issue with the current version.

I'll show him your feedback about the end-game. He was just excited to use document.write()'s side effect of blanking the page if it was the first use of the function. Partly he just wanted to do it because I told him we don't use that function anymore.

Appreciate the feedback!

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:14:55 +0000

haha that's awesome!!

pounder monster is my favorite animation

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:13:59 +0000

Usually starts with "Scratch" at a very young age. It's block based drag n drop programming.

Here's the path my son followed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313045

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:30:36 +0000

He learned about LLM hallucination the hard way, when it recommended things that didn't actually work.

This next generation will have deep understanding of power and limitations of these tools.

Appreciate your comments!

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:28:34 +0000

you need to use throwing star 4 times before it will give you access to exploding star. If you use any other star, it costs you in "charge"

All of his is not clear - he plans to make it more clear for the next version

New comment by veesahni in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

veesahni — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:27:51 +0000

Appreciate the feedback!