I don't know about that. My son is about 13. He's got into coding using godot and initially built a few games in Javascript (via. a book which I worked through with him). Then, he picked up Godot from tutorials online and recently has built something multiplayer. He asked for a Claude subscription for his last birthday and since then has been doing all the parts he enjoys by hand (combat mechanics etc.) but using Claude to do things like trailers, website aesthetics, sound effects etc. It's been nice and the results are impressive. e.g. one of his first games was a simple hangman. Now, he added a keyboard to that via Claude so that it can be played using a browser.

He's been publishing his work at https://waitinggodot.in/

My younger one has been creating little things on a microbit using the block based environment online. He's enjoying it too.

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fredliu 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Completely agree, looks like 13 - 14 yo is the right age to dab in both side (traditional coding and LLM assisted coding) for instance, my son (13 yo), knows a bit of coding (python, javascript, roblox, etc.) and some experience, but giving him Claude Code with Godot MCP was the true unlock, he spend so much time building his own gam, focusing on the aesthetics, gaming mechanism, story line, overall effects and look and feel:

https://paulinatorrr.itch.io/sword-of-ghix-chapter-1

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mattm 7 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Love the retro feel to it. He even has a guestbook. I was about 13 when I created my first website. Of course that was in the days when it all needed to be done by hand and there weren't really programming languages for the web yet. Hope he keeps at it!

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EGreg 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love the idea of your kid publishing a website… just make sure you store versions of that thing over the years!

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noufalibrahim 8 minutes ago | parent [-]

Thanks. He's got a Youtube channel and an itch.io account. Wants to really get into the game development space. I'll show him your comment. :)

There was a local contest where I am and his entry for that was his latest game which has multiplayer support over the net. He set up a server on a VPS for this. https://waitinggodot.in/games/legends-of-crumbs.html

	▲	EGreg 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		He might enjoy reading this… when I was 14-17 I was into 3D engines, reading Flipcode and Gamasutra, and was lucky enough to write a column for them: https://www.flipcode.com/archives/Theory_Practice-Issue_00_I...

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bakugo 5 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

This just proves the point more than anything, really.

Both the website's design and the games presented look indistinguishable from every other AI-generated website and game I've seen in the past. I do not feel any sense of individuality while looking at them, they could've been prompted by just about anyone. Even the little text blurbs are plain unfiltered Claudeslop ("no spoilers, just green and red squares").

Any one of your son's peers could create something identical by typing "claude, make me a cool website with some games" and waiting an hour or two, and that's the problem. How do you think he would feel if he showed this to one of his friends, hoping to impress them, and one day later, that same friend approached him and said "look, I made a website exactly like yours, it was so easy"?