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Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker
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#62your kid have hands-on ability. If there is a first time, there will be a second time. Looking forward to making more products in the future
Re: Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker
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Speak for yourself (re learning)? Lots of young ppl are curious and determined and willing to dig into the guts of a thing to understand how it works. I agree re LLMs lowering the barrier of entry generally being a good thing, but I also find it disingenuous to present this as anyone's work at all, really. All of the copy on the page (e.g. the "Made with I am sorry to be a downer! To be clear, shipping alone is a hur…
re: "taste" - whatever that even means here - you could say the same thing about any of the thousands of Bootstrap or Tailwind or whatever CRUD apps made over the years.
You are pointing out the use of generic front-end frameworks and claiming that it is a similar phenomenon, in that using generic frameworks can result in bland visual design with little evidence of taste or intention on the part of the creator, resulting in products that are visually unappealing and uninteresting. I agree with this.
If you care to develop this thought further, I would love to read it -- at the moment, it seems half-baked, unless you just wanted to point out the similarities.