I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

I have sincere doubts that a single short (or even long) prompt is enough to get a working app/game beyond some trivial level of difficulty. And even if it were possible, such a thing would be interesting to only a very small subset of HN readership. I'm quite interested in recent AI developments and I would still not click on such a section.

amichail · 3h ago

Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview) was able to one shot my novel Rubik's cube variant as a web app via a short English prompt.

pvg · 5h ago

I'd skip the level of indirection and just add an 'amichail asks' section.

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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