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Re: Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

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Brothers think alike ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17871313

It's crazy that in 2018 a cellular automata written in JS by a 12 year old was considered special (which it is) and today, nobody would even bat an eye because you can just vibe code this without effort.

It would still be impressive if it wasn't vibe coded.

Re: Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

#32

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Brothers think alike ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17871313

It's crazy that in 2018 a cellular automata written in JS by a 12 year old was considered special (which it is) and today, nobody would even bat an eye because you can just vibe code this without effort.

Hold up, are you the type of person wanting to fire software teams because we can just ask the Product Owner to vibe code the new features?

Re: Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

#34
Don’t listen to people telling you not to post your age on the internet. This is solid work and you did this instead of being stuck in one of the hundreds of +1 dopamine traps in Roblox or yelling at other (often times much younger) kids in Fortnite like many of your peers did.

You did something meaningful, you even waited to share it with the world until version three, and you learned a ton doing it. Well done, dude!

Re: Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

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post #32

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It's crazy that in 2018 a cellular automata written in JS by a 12 year old was considered special (which it is) and today, nobody would even bat an eye because you can just vibe code this without effort.

Hold up, are you the type of person wanting to fire software teams because we can just ask the Product Owner to vibe code the new features?

No, I think the bar is just too high nowdays.

The projects I built as teenager spending weeks, it's just would take half hour of vibecoding now.

Re: Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

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post #32

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Hold up, are you the type of person wanting to fire software teams because we can just ask the Product Owner to vibe code the new features?

No, I think the bar is just too high nowdays. The projects I built as teenager spending weeks, it's just would take half hour of vibecoding now.

I'm going through this. It's demoralizing. I want to spend weeks coding something cool. The idea of asking an AI to do it in 30 minutes is like... what's even the point. I know I can, so why bother. I'd rather go get a beer.

It's like getting all the cheat codes and then the game isn't fun anymore.

Re: Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

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Hey, you should join Hack Club! I was just at an event where a high schooler designed and built a continuous variable transmission ( https://outpost.hackclub.com ). You’ll meet a ton of interesting, friendly teens who are all helping each other build awesome projects. Cool project! (Hack Club is a nonprofit and I’m the founder of it)

I was actually looking to join hackclub, how should I approach it?

You can just join their Slack workspace (it's a bit like Discord) on their website: https://slack.hackclub.com/ Then in the #announcements channel you'll see all the different projects they're running, just pick and choose the ones that interest you. I went to one of their meetups "Horizons Europa" last week and had a great time!
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