[eunos]

> Gemini is a hard-ban.

Sounds like you would hard-ban your son from using Internet if it was only introduced 5 years ago

[ItsBob]

No, that's not the case and I don't think comparing Gemini and the internet is the same.

The internet (to stretch your analogy) is more like a shit load of library books that you have to look through but Gemini is the guy that goes and reads the books for you and tells you the answer.

I'm not saying they don't have their uses for me as an adult (I'm a software architect), but for a 15 year old, they absolutely do not have their uses! At all.

At age 15 you know nothing about life. You should learn it yourself, not be told it!

[eunos]

Remind me during my early college days in which they even discourage you from using Eclipse or NetBeans during intro to programming class.

Only notepad allowed. So much fun memorizing Java util imports.

[bcrosby95]

Or a calculator. Oh wait, I hard ban my 8 and 11 year old kids from using a calculator. I wonder why.

[CamperBob2]

That... is not a good idea.

Inexpensive calculators were relatively new when I was that age, and I learned so much just playing with them.

[LtWorf]

What exactly did you learn?

[CamperBob2]

Among other things, I learned that I was really, really into computing machinery.

[CamperBob2]

(I also learned that a lot of people on Hacker News have absolutely no business on a site called 'Hacker News.')

[LtWorf]

I did repeatedly hack my university though. But you are of course free to leave :)