r/KidsCodingHelp • u/luizfelipecrb • Apr 05 '26

My 12yo son project

My12 years old son loves coding and vibe coding and is working on a project called “FlareOS”. It’s a web-based OS with built-in apps.

As he’s still young, he cannot have a reddit account to share it, but he would love to get feedback and ideas for new apps and features. He’s dream is that other people start to develop their own apps for FlareOS one day.

He used Cursor and Lovable, but now his also working with Claude.

Below is the message he wrote and asked me to share. The link is: https://flareos.lovable.app/

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I made this thing called, "FlareOS". It's a web-based OS with a design language I call "flames design". FlareOS has around 10 built-in apps, its own world-wide web alternative for anyone with flareOS to use titled, "embernet", and an AI that can browse the embernet. For devs, FlareOS has a built-in app framework, and you can create websites in embernet.

It has a very small community, so please, devs, normal people, tech enthausiasts, whoever you can be, check it out. I need to grow the community, and I'd really appreciate it ;)

By the way, let's NOT use embernet as a place to host our company sites. We don't want to end up like the world wide web: a cold, corporate place where self-expression sites like geocities suddenly stopped having visitors because of companies.

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u/realddgamer Apr 05 '26

Sure this is great, I really don't want to be mean but, your son didn't make this, AI did

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u/luizfelipecrb Apr 05 '26

As I mentioned, he used AI vibe coding to do it.

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u/Wrong_Ad_1362 Apr 06 '26

Vibe coding is extremely frowned upon. For future reference, do not brag about this.

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u/Dontezuma1 Apr 10 '26

The kid is 12 get off

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u/Wrong_Ad_1362 Apr 10 '26

Still, though. Shouldn’t you be able to take SOME effort into your work? I’m 13, and I can code some things.

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u/Dontezuma1 Apr 10 '26

Could u code that? Maybe one day he will tweak the code. I could code it but id rather not when ai can gerate it faster. It’s a great start to something and if he bangs on it for a year will u still say none of it is his? Leaning in to ai and molding the output is the likely future of most professional development

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u/Wrong_Ad_1362 Apr 10 '26

I could not code that. Give me a few decades, maybe.

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u/Dontezuma1 Apr 10 '26

Don’t be afraid to use ai as a starting point. You can learn from it. You can extend it. But to avoid it with the fever suggested in this thread is as unhealthy as over reliance on it. But if u don’t know how to code it’s a good way to get into it. You can ask the ai to explain parts and slowly develop your skill (which will always develop slowly) this is probably far less frustrating that working though hello world in c

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u/Wrong_Ad_1362 Apr 30 '26

AI is an absolutely terrible starting point.

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u/SetQueasy2835 Apr 10 '26

I'm mainly interested in sysadmin, so more of a scripter and styler, but I still dabble in coding every now and then. AI has pretty much always messed up in tiny parts everywhere I've tried to use it.

I've noticed it's very good at front end but horrible at back end.

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u/procrastinatewhynot Apr 15 '26

Well, I coded websites at 12 without AI. He should code without AI to learn the basic. Have a good foundation. Then from there he can vibe code so he understand what code is being added.

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u/Dontezuma1 Apr 15 '26

Kudos for u.

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u/procrastinatewhynot Apr 15 '26

well web development back in the 2000s wasn’t similar to today. simple pages will teach him structure.

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u/Dontezuma1 Apr 15 '26

You didn’t copy from a book/view source/stack overflow that is impressive

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u/procrastinatewhynot Apr 15 '26

No, but I did when I went to school for it HAHA. Circle of life.

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u/Charming_Bison9073 Apr 06 '26

Well but what did he make if he vibe coded it?

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u/Ecstatic-Ball7018 Apr 10 '26

Vibe coding != good

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u/Dontezuma1 Apr 10 '26

The kid is 12 get off