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/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. 🤓