Coding Just Became Everyone's Job. A 5-Year-Old Who Can't Read Proved It.
Four production games, dictated through a broken microphone - and why the skill that built them is now required in every profession, not just tech.
My daughter Alisa is five. She cannot read yet. In three sessions this August she dictated four browser games into a microphone, and all four are live in production at games.vreshch.com - a public repo, real tests, real deploys.
I went through the transcripts afterwards and counted every human input. There were 67. Eleven were hers, dictated through a microphone that mangled her relentlessly - "smile" arrived as "file" and "miles", and the games shipped anyway. Fifty-two were mine, and nearly all of mine were deploys, tests and analytics. She made the games. I operated them.
#What she actually did
The whole skill fits in one loop, and none of it is code:
- Say it. "one smile on the main page. And when you click on it, it became scarier and scarier, make it for us."
- See it. She played the build on a phone, minutes after asking.
- Correct it. "Uh, right now, cycle is overlapping with triangle. The placeholder should look more like the character itself..."
- Accept it. "really like the game."
She never asked the AI a question - she gave it work and judged the output. And that loop - specify, then validate - is already the daily work of every profession: a doctor signing off a clinical summary, a lawyer marking up a draft, an accountant catching the edge case at close. Anthropic's study of ~400,000 real coding-agent sessions found the occupation best at directing coding agents was not software engineering. It was management.
Specifying and verifying is the job now. It was always the job. The typing in between just stopped being yours.
The full article walks through the receipts: the broken-microphone transcript, when the agent asks questions and when it silently builds, the typist-vs-secretary precedent for what AI does to professions, the labor-market numbers, and the two honest boundaries - the platform underneath was mine, and the validation could never be delegated.
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Related: games.vreshch.com - the four games, live · github.com/vreshch/kids-games - the public repo · agentage.io - one memory for every AI.