Comment by vector_spaces

The comments on this HN thread are all very confusing to me and making me wonder if I read a different article altogether.

For instance, I am wondering what exactly you are responding to with this comment, since the game described in the article is not really about teaching the kid to code with AI at all? I mean, what you wrote is interesting, but it isn't really topical

The blog post that I read mentions a single generative AI feature baked into the game that allows the player to create a single item once per day using a text prompt. But it is one single feature with limited uses. The blog post devotes very little ink towards describing it, and it is very clear that the goal of the project is not to use AI to teach coding, but more to provide a constrained, hackable sandbox environment with a deliberately impaired scripting language -- so, lots of "basic building blocks" as you say.

Was there something else in the post that I missed?