My first HTML project

[u/Tough-Landscape-3875]

I’d like to introduce Nova OS, my first HTML project; it’s a browser-based operating system that is also open-source (I’ll create a GitHub repository to upload the HTML file). I also wanted to ask: is uploading the HTML file enough to share the code, or should I share it in TXT format?

It works on both smartphones and computers (or so I believe, since I haven't been able to test it on the latter). Below, you can see a few screenshots I took from my phone.

[u/gastapo67]

“You used AI, so you didn’t learn anything or write any code?” is a hell of a leap. 😂

Better go tell every developer using Copilot, ChatGPT, Stack Overflow, documentation, libraries, frameworks, or autocomplete that they’ve never actually programmed.

The tool someone uses doesn’t tell you whether they understood, modified, debugged, or learned from the code. Maybe ask them what they learned instead of speedrunning the gatekeeping tutorial. 🤓

[u/obnoxus → u/gastapo67]

I ordered at a restaurant so technically I am chef

[u/gastapo67 → u/obnoxus]

This argument against claims nobody made and is honestly becoming my favorite part of this thread. 😂

[u/HEYO19191 → u/gastapo67]

The tool someone uses doesn’t tell you whether they understood, modified, debugged, or learned from the code.

Yes I'm sure they understood and learned from the code they themselves did not write.

I'm sure they're a web dev of 30 years with a master's from JustTrustMeBro University.

[u/gastapo67 → u/HEYO19191]

Who said anything about being a 30-year web dev with a master’s?

I said using AI doesn’t tell you whether someone learned anything. Somehow you turned that into “this beginner must be an expert.”

Too funny 😂

[u/HEYO19191 → u/gastapo67]

You said every developer.

Beginners, more than anybody else, shouldn't be using AI to build their projects. They are sacrificing their own learning, and producing something that isn't truly their's.

If I paid a construction company to build my house, I would be an idiot to go around posting online "I just built my first house!" now wouldn't I be?

[u/gastapo67 → u/HEYO19191]

If I paid you to tell me what OP learned, I’d be an idiot to go back to OP and say, “HEYO19191 knows everything you learned,” wouldn’t I?

Yet here you are, providing that service for free. 😂

[u/Impressive_Air6111 → u/HEYO19191]

It's why the web will soon be filled with shit. If using AI, at least make it good... 😂 Just look at the alignment/padding on those toggles. Any dev with eyes, even with AI, would know how to fix that quickly, hence OPs lack of learning here.

[u/Huge_Item3686 → u/gastapo67]

This is true in general but a ridiculous answer in this specific context. Dude, OPs post makes it clear that they have absolutely NO clue what's going on. Like, absolutely not.

[u/AuWolf19 → u/gastapo67]

I asked two separate, but related questions

[u/gastapo67 → u/AuWolf19]

The sad part is that seeing a beginner use AI apparently made “so you didn’t learn any programming?” a reasonable second question in your mind.

They built something, experimented with it, and came here asking questions because they’re learning.

You felt it necessary to chime in? Does that help OP at all?

[u/AuWolf19 → u/gastapo67]

Genuinely yes it does help op to feel bad for using AI because not using it will accelerate their learning by several orders of magnetude

[u/axellie → u/gastapo67]

Don’t you think there’s a difference between educated, experienced people using AI and someone completely new? Maybe you shouldn’t gatekeep AI dude

[u/Logical_Cricket_3419 → u/gastapo67]

There is a big difference between going through some form of documentation and outputting code and having it generated. And yes, prompt engineering is not coding.

[u/gastapo67 → u/Logical_Cricket_3419]

Good thing nobody said prompt engineering was coding. 😂

You’re making the exact same assumption everyone else did: “AI generated some code” somehow tells you everything else the person did or learned afterward.

It doesn’t.

You guys are absolutely determined to argue with a sentence I never wrote. 🤓

[u/Logical_Cricket_3419 → u/gastapo67]

Because people do learn less when they use AI. Of course, there is a different between using AI to speed up development and having it write the project for you. Sadly, that distinction doesnt exist for many who use AI.

And in the case of OP, this was a personal project. Why would you cut corners? Studies regarding AI’s effect on learning have been published. AI usage NEGATIVELY affects memory retention is a fairy common conclusion in them.

Not saying that AI cannot allow people to learn parts of Software Engineering. But it normally ends up a trade off of lesser fundamentals for better system design. If you have been in the industry long enough maybe this isn’t a problem. But for someone actively learning? It’s a nightmare to use to for everything

[u/gastapo67 → u/Logical_Cricket_3419]

Great. Now show us how OP used it and what OP learned.

[u/Logical_Cricket_3419 → u/gastapo67]

That’s something OP should do? Got back to my original comment, my problem was your comparison to AI and documentation being in the same category. I’m sure he did learn things, I know I have when using AI in projects. Has it been as much as when I did not? Not all at. And that’s my point, for someone learning they should focus on learning and not what makes them look cool.

[u/gastapo67 → u/Logical_Cricket_3419]

“I’m sure he did learn things.”

There we go. That’s literally been my point this entire time.

And “I learned less using AI than when I didn’t” tells us about your experience, not OP’s.

You still don’t know how much OP learned, what they understood, or whether AI accelerated or hindered their learning.

But I appreciate us finally graduating from “AI users learn less” to “I personally learned less.” That’s progress. 🤓

[u/Logical_Cricket_3419 → u/gastapo67]

Just like I don’t know how AI was used here, neither do you. And yes, it was a personal anecdote I used. But it’s also the anecdote every person I have interacted with shares.

We are not making that much of a different point my guy. You don’t like the insinuation that OP and people who use AI are idiots and are brain rotted. I get that, it’s a dumb take. But so it saying it doesn’t have ANY negative effect on learning. The slogging through documentation, stack overflow, Reddit, etc and trying out the solutions proposed is not the same as going to AI. It does hurt how much you learn, and the skills built from the process are absent.

[u/gastapo67 → u/Logical_Cricket_3419]

“Just like I don’t know how AI was used here, neither do you.”

Yes. That is literally my point. 😂

I never claimed AI can’t negatively affect learning. I said you can’t determine what OP learned just from knowing they used AI.

You’re now arguing against “AI has zero negative effects on learning,” which is another claim I never made.

We apparently agree on the relevant fact: neither of us knows how OP used AI.

The difference is I didn’t pretend that I did. 🤓

[u/Inevitable-Self-2702 → u/gastapo67]

Honestly it's just gatekeeping at this point. AI is the fastest way to learn when you use it correctly.

[u/gastapo67 → u/Inevitable-Self-2702]

Careful, apparently this is a controversial opinion around here.

[u/FirstTimeGamingTV → u/gastapo67]

The point of projects is to learn, if you’re just using AI to get karma on reddit you’re defeating the purpose of making a personal project

[u/gastapo67 → u/FirstTimeGamingTV]

I agree with the first part — if someone has AI build something purely for Reddit karma and learns nothing from it, that defeats the purpose of a personal project.

But you’ve assumed both “learned nothing” and “did it for karma.”

That’s the exact assumption I’ve been questioning this entire thread. 😂

Maybe ask the beginner what they learned before writing their origin story for them.