Coding is Dead? No, it’s just getting started for 10-year-olds.

It started on a random Sunday afternoon at our kitchen table. I was playing around with an M5Stack Core2, "vibe-coding" a simple pixel face that made a sound when you tapped the screen. I thought it was a fun little experiment—until I showed it to my 10-year-old son, Justus. He looked at it, then at me, and said: " Dad, you can't leave it like that. It needs a life. It needs to eat, it needs to sleep, and it definitely needs to talk to other pets. " That was the spark. We spent the rest of the a