(I should add a little humility to my earlier comment here, I wasn't there, and I don't know your kid, so I can't really say anything for certain. But it sure sounds to me like your kid figured out the math part well before the vibe coding started.)
Your kid did something cool as hell, and you should be proud. But it's very clear from the article that the headline is wrong:
"My Kid Vibe Coded Their Way To Actually Learning Math"
Nope - I would argue that they had already learned and understood the math. The tell is that they were able to correct the study tool's mistakes and make it something useful enough to share with friends. Practice is a good thing - it's useful and necessary to do well on a quiz - but your kid had already figured out the puzzle, so to speak.
For what it's worth, I'm a math professor who specializes in math education, so I very much have a stake in discussions around AI tools. And, I should admit that I am very skeptical of AI in general. And, again, I'm not trying to diminish the fact that your kid did something cool with AI. But I would also argue that the use of AI is almost tangential to what is really cool here - that they understood the puzzle well enough that they could make something useful to share with their friends.
So much of the push of using AI in education is to make learning individualized (see Khan Academy's promo material), and I believe (professionally) that that is exactly the wrong direction. Learning is so much richer, much more successful, and just much better when it is social (as in your kid's group of friends).
For a really good perspective on useful edtech in math, check out Dan Meyer, he has a lot more to say on this than I want to put in a comment.
"That’s why so many people in Trump’s orbit pretend the New Testament doesn’t exist and go hard with quotes from the Old Testament..."
These cherry-picking Biblicists* don't even read the whole of the Old Testament. Deathspeed above already mentioned Leviticus 19:33-34, about not mistreating strangers and foreigners. But there are so, so many more examples. The entire book of Ruth is about the radical welcoming, providing for, and including of a foreigner. It's absolutely maddening that these people are what get called "Christian" in this country.
*I think even "faux-Christian" is too kind of a label; whatever they pretend to follow, it sure ain't Jesus Christ.
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(I should add a little humility to my earlier comment here, I wasn't there, and I don't know your kid, so I can't really say anything for certain. But it sure sounds to me like your kid figured out the math part well before the vibe coding started.)
The headline is wrong
Your kid did something cool as hell, and you should be proud. But it's very clear from the article that the headline is wrong: "My Kid Vibe Coded Their Way To Actually Learning Math" Nope - I would argue that they had already learned and understood the math. The tell is that they were able to correct the study tool's mistakes and make it something useful enough to share with friends. Practice is a good thing - it's useful and necessary to do well on a quiz - but your kid had already figured out the puzzle, so to speak. For what it's worth, I'm a math professor who specializes in math education, so I very much have a stake in discussions around AI tools. And, I should admit that I am very skeptical of AI in general. And, again, I'm not trying to diminish the fact that your kid did something cool with AI. But I would also argue that the use of AI is almost tangential to what is really cool here - that they understood the puzzle well enough that they could make something useful to share with their friends. So much of the push of using AI in education is to make learning individualized (see Khan Academy's promo material), and I believe (professionally) that that is exactly the wrong direction. Learning is so much richer, much more successful, and just much better when it is social (as in your kid's group of friends). For a really good perspective on useful edtech in math, check out Dan Meyer, he has a lot more to say on this than I want to put in a comment.
"That’s why so many people in Trump’s orbit pretend the New Testament doesn’t exist and go hard with quotes from the Old Testament..." These cherry-picking Biblicists* don't even read the whole of the Old Testament. Deathspeed above already mentioned Leviticus 19:33-34, about not mistreating strangers and foreigners. But there are so, so many more examples. The entire book of Ruth is about the radical welcoming, providing for, and including of a foreigner. It's absolutely maddening that these people are what get called "Christian" in this country. *I think even "faux-Christian" is too kind of a label; whatever they pretend to follow, it sure ain't Jesus Christ.