Building an LLM Robot with My Son — EP 5. My Son's First Day Coding a Robot with AI
Building an LLM Robot with My Son — EP 5. My Son's First Day Coding a Robot with AI The day came when my son wanted to try alone. Up until now I'd always been close — sitting next to him, typing alongside him, stepping in when errors appeared. But this afternoon: "I'll do it myself." A weekend afternoon. I went to another room. About thirty minutes later he came out. "Dad, the robot keeps turning left." His First Prompts Later we looked at everything he'd typed that day. The first prompt: "make the robot avoid obstacles by going left" Claude Code produced code. He uploaded it. The robot moved forward, detected an obstacle, stopped, turned left. So far correct. After turning, it didn't go forward again. Just kept turning left. Second prompt: "make it go forward again after avoiding the obstacle" Code was revised. Uploaded. This time: detect obstacle, stop, turn left, go forward again. But every turn was the sa...