Talked to a 12 year old at a library coding club and felt ancient

I was helping out at a library coding club in Akron last Saturday and this kid showed me his Scratch project that used AI image recognition to sort virtual recycling. He explained the whole thing like it was nothing, while I was still proud of making a button change color on click. Has anyone else had a kid casually humble them with tech skills?

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parker_thomas21d ago

Honestly the scary part is these kids don't even realize how impressive it is to them. They just see it as another tool like we saw dragging a file into a folder. That gap between what they think is normal and what we know took years to build is humbling.

juliag1021d ago

Ha my friend's 12 year old nephew legit asked her "what did people even do before AI?" like it was a thing that just always existed. She said she felt like she was talking to an alien for a second.

danielr9421d ago

It's wild to think about how fast the baseline keeps moving too. Like, what scares me isn't that they don't appreciate it, its that they're already building on top of this stuff without realizing it. They're not just using the tool, they're remixing it into new habits and workflows we can't even picture yet. We're watching the foundation shift under our feet real time and most people have no clue.