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Outcoded by Our Kids - It Took Us 20 Years, They Used 20 Prompts!

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Explore a humbling conference talk where two experienced tech fathers discover their 11 and 12-year-old sons can build complete games using AI-powered platforms in just 20 prompts—accomplishing what took the fathers two decades to learn. Witness how these children, with zero coding experience, created games with levels, enemies, sounds, and scoring systems by simply describing their vision to AI agents, bypassing traditional development hurdles like IDEs, syntax errors, and complex frameworks. Compare the lightning-fast creative process of AI-assisted development against traditional structured programming approaches while examining actual games built by the children. Delve into the fundamental questions reshaping software development: whether traditional programming is becoming obsolete, how developers can remain relevant as architects and engineers, what skills matter in an AI-assisted no-code world, and how to transition from builders to orchestrators of intelligent systems. Gain insights into the future of software development through this funny yet profound examination of generational differences in approaching technology creation.

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Outcoded by Our Kids: It Took Us 20 Years, They Used 20 Prompts! by Jan Van Wassenhove, Bart Wulle

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