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Show HN: I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent

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37 points JeffMcCune | 4 comments | 08 Jul 25 14:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source

The HN community may find the context of the prompts, organized by each turn in each session, the most useful. See the website/docs/prompts.md and session-X.md files. I also started exploring some workflows for the LLM to execute, organized in the website/docs/tasks/ folder. I found it pretty handy to have the LLM document our work as we went and simply embedded the static site into the executable, along with all the music and logic.

The whole project took me about a day for the backend. The C++ controller itself took only a few turns.

I enjoyed focusing on my son's experience and letting the agent handle the C++, Javascript, and Go code.

I'm still getting started with coding agents, so please do share any tips or tricks to help me with similar projects. I'm most interested in how to work effectively with the agent, like what you see in dev-loop.sh

1. xandrius ◴[12 Jul 25 09:14 UTC] No.44540553[source]▶
Great way to allow your kid to play the Frozen song on repeat every hour of the day :D
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2. didgeoridoo ◴[12 Jul 25 13:13 UTC] No.44541849[source]▶
In my experience there is no way to avoid this short of eliminating every trace of copper and silicon from your home.
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3. JeffMcCune ◴[12 Jul 25 15:19 UTC] No.44542679[source]▶
That was the first album on it for sure and yes he repeats it constantly. Luckily the speaker is in his room.

He’s got a yoto too but won’t wear the headphones, so this has been a nice compromise.

4. xandrius ◴[12 Jul 25 15:47 UTC] No.44542879[source]▶
To be fair, if they manage to play the Frozen song on a classic Game boy color, I'd let them.