13-Year-Old Builds Online Game Website in 48 Hours After 30-Minute Codex Lesson
paw_lean · x · 2026-07-29
A developer shared a case where they provided a 13-year-old with a MacBook and a ChatGPT Plus account, followed by a 30-minute introduction to Codex. Just 48 hours later, the teenager successfully built and deployed a playable online game website. The case vividly demonstrates how current AI coding agents are drastically lowering the barrier to entry for software development.
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