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veesahni

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About veesahni

Full stack developer. Founder of Enchant.com

http://www.vinaysahni.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45564122

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

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    Comment #43628447

    great ideas Luke!

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    Comment #43627175

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

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    Comment #43626561

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

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    Comment #43622820

    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…

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    Comment #42840956

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

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    Comment #42362771

    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 expe…

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    Comment #42353887

    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 t…

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    Comment #42353861

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

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    Comment #42339759

    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 …

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    Comment #42333437

    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 bee…

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    Comment #42330791

    I posted on HN back then also

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    Comment #42329917

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

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    Comment #42329006

    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.writ…

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    Comment #42328979

    haha that's awesome!! pounder monster is my favorite animation

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    Comment #42328968

    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

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    Comment #42328046

    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…

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    Comment #42328023

    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 ma…

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    Comment #42328012

    Appreciate the feedback!

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    Comment #42328008

    One of the things he wanted to implement is "shoots" - where something goes flying to the opponent. Perhaps in a future release!

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    Comment #42328000

    Thank you for the kind words!

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    Comment #42327999

    Thank you for the kind words :)

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    Comment #42324683

    I'm glad it brightened your day!! Appreciate the comments!

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    Comment #42324674

    All in good time!