I let my 5-year-old make a game with AI. He picked up coding skills — but needed clear guardrails.

Lena Hall let his 5-year-old use a voice-based coding tool to build a game. Lena Hall A mother who works in tech guided her 5-year-old to vibe code a game. Her son dictated to OpenAI's Codex and picked up skills like refining an idea after feedback. Lena Hall tells BI she also put guardrails in place to ensure AI wouldn't harm him. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lena Hall, a senior director of developer and AI strategy at Akamai Technologies and cofounder of an AI sta...