{"slug": "show-hn-practice-coding-with-ai-on-real-tickets", "title": "Show HN: Practice coding with AI on real tickets", "summary": "A Show HN post introduced a practice platform where developers work real client-style tickets alongside an AI teammate across five codebases in Python and JavaScript, with a free account offering one ticket from Lakeside Wheels with 25 AI teammate replies. The platform's five seasons each pair one business with one codebase and six tickets — a feature, a review of the AI's code, a bug, a slow page, tests, and a cross-codebase change — and score users on Ask, Direct, Verify, Protect and Performance, with credits priced at 1 credit per 2 replies. Each ticket plants mistakes of the kind real AI tools make so users have something to catch, and Python covers Seasons 0 to 3 while JavaScript (Node.js) covers Season 4.", "body_md": "FREE ACCOUNT\n\n**1** ticket, Lakeside Wheels’ first, with 25 AI teammate replies\n\nFive codebases in Python and JavaScript. Find out what the client needs, direct your AI teammate, and deliver. If something’s wrong, it comes back.\n\nHOW A TICKET GOES.\n\nIt’s how teams work with AI now. The hard part isn’t typing the code: it’s knowing what to build and catching what’s wrong.\n\nFIVE SEASONS.\n\nEach season is one business and one codebase, with six tickets: a feature, a review of the AI’s code, a bug, a slow page, tests, and a change that has to reach every part of the code. Each ticket starts from a working version of the last.\n\nYOUR SKILLS.\n\nEvery ticket ends with scores from what you did. **Ask:** did you find what the client needed? **Direct:** did the AI build it right? **Verify:** did you catch its mistakes? **Protect:** did what worked keep working? **Performance:** is it fast enough? Your tech lead adds one thing to do differently next time.\n\nYou don’t have to read the code: you try cases and check what comes out. The code is always there if you want it.\n\nWHAT’S INCLUDED.\n\nTalking to the client is always free. Your AI teammate’s replies come with your plan, and credits add more: 1 credit is 2 replies.\n\nPRO\n\nPACK\n\n**Packs never expire.** They’re a one-time payment for anyone, and they’re used after the replies your plan includes.\n\nNo. You find out what the client needs, tell your AI teammate, try cases and deliver. The code is there for anyone who wants it, and you can always write it yourself.\n\nPython in Seasons 0 to 3, JavaScript (Node.js) in Season 4.\n\nYes. It writes code from what you tell it and runs the project’s tests. Each ticket also plants a few mistakes of the kind real AI tools make, so there’s always something to catch.\n\nIn an interview you solve a problem alone. Here you work the way a team does now: with a client, an AI teammate and a codebase that grows from ticket to ticket.\n\nStart with [Booly’s Dev Agency](../build/): clients ask for apps and Booly, our AI, builds them. No code to write.\n\nNO CARD NEEDED.\n\nMarta wants weekend prices. Find out what she really needs.\n\n5 seasons · Python and JavaScript", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-practice-coding-with-ai-on-real-tickets", "canonical_source": "https://algocademy.com/ai-coding-practice/", "published_at": "2026-11-13 13:35:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-13 13:51:17.324607+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-agents", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Booly", "Lakeside Wheels", "Python", "JavaScript", "Node.js"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-practice-coding-with-ai-on-real-tickets", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-practice-coding-with-ai-on-real-tickets.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-practice-coding-with-ai-on-real-tickets.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-practice-coding-with-ai-on-real-tickets.jsonld"}}