How can you get your kids into coding? We asked an 8-year-old app builder.

Ben welcomes Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations and Community at Cloudflare, and his eight-year-old daughter Fay for a chat about how AI tools are helping new developers get started and how to encourage your kids to try coding.

Credit: Alexandra Francis

Watch Fay build a Harry Potter-themed chatbot with an assist from AI.

Cursor is the AI code editor Fay’s using. Get started with their docs.

Connect with Ricky on LinkedIn or X.

Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahendra Kulkarni, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How do I get current rowindex of a table using JavaScript?.

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