Jason Voorhees
Say cheese
- Joined
- May 15, 2020
- Posts
- 79,185
- Reputation
- 230,798
Tonight I spent 4-5 hours pair programming with a teenager from Estonia. I often do these big bounties and help these smaller Devs in building their apps. I used to do it often before but stopped doing it after I started doing cooperate work
looksmax.org
He's building a real time collaborative car bookings app with OpenStreetMap + WebSockets. The Ul is genuinely beautiful clean, smooth and thoughtful. With clear user focus. I've seen university final year projects that look like some windows XP era
We fixed the WebSocket reconnection issues and some CORS problems together. And I proof read his code. It was a classic camel case and snake case date and time issue with some race conditions. His code was AI generated I could tell but he clearly tried to use his own logic but it was hitting race conditions that I fixed.
The rest of the time I was just watching in awe while he drove. I offered to rebuild + deploy the whole thing for him tonight for free ofc but he politely said no he wants to finish it himself so he really learns.
Kids like this are why I love doing free work. No ego, no clout chase, no money just pure passion and curiosity.At 17-18 he's already building harder and cleaner than most adults I know.
You're already doing it right kid. Keep going, the world needs more people like you. I am proud of you. I told him to let me know if he needs any help and left. What a great experience
I do bug bounty for free
It is like 4 am and I am working on some kid's project that he very obviously generated with an LLM engine. It is so easy to spot a computer generated code. The bug wasn't even that hard to fix. Was just function calling and import issue that i figured out. I fixed it and now I am trying to...
He's building a real time collaborative car bookings app with OpenStreetMap + WebSockets. The Ul is genuinely beautiful clean, smooth and thoughtful. With clear user focus. I've seen university final year projects that look like some windows XP era
We fixed the WebSocket reconnection issues and some CORS problems together. And I proof read his code. It was a classic camel case and snake case date and time issue with some race conditions. His code was AI generated I could tell but he clearly tried to use his own logic but it was hitting race conditions that I fixed.
The rest of the time I was just watching in awe while he drove. I offered to rebuild + deploy the whole thing for him tonight for free ofc but he politely said no he wants to finish it himself so he really learns.
Kids like this are why I love doing free work. No ego, no clout chase, no money just pure passion and curiosity.At 17-18 he's already building harder and cleaner than most adults I know.
You're already doing it right kid. Keep going, the world needs more people like you. I am proud of you. I told him to let me know if he needs any help and left. What a great experience
Last edited: