Show HN: Fata – spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding (Rust, CSS)

Show HN: Fata – spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding (Rust, CSS)(fata.dev)

1 points by djoume 3 days ago | 1 comment

Hi HN, I'm Djoumé. I've been a developer for over 20 years, and like a lot of you I've switched to coding almost exclusively through an agent in the past few months. I noticed my recall of fundamentals getting mushy, the stuff I used to know cold, I was now asking the agent to confirm.

So I built fata: short daily spaced-repetition sessions for coding skills (Rust, CSS, React, Python, TypeScript, architecture). The scheduling is real SRS under the hood, think Anki, not streaks for streaks' sake. You can try a course in the browser with no signup: https://fata.app/courses

Tech: it's an offline-first mobile app built with Capacitor, RxDB syncing to Firestore. The first courses were painfully written by hand, but most content is now AI-generated, it takes about 3000 LLM calls to generate a course, and every code sample goes through compilation, linting, unit testing, AI and manual review before it ships.

Deliberate, spaced practice is the only thing I know of that actually counters skill decay, and I built the lowest-friction version of it I could.

Would love your honest feedback on the product & website, what works and what doesn't. Thanks!

djoume 2 days ago |

Hi HN, I'm Djoumé. I've been a developer for over 20 years, and like a lot of you I've been coding almost exclusively through an agent in the past few months.

It's been amazing to vibe code prototypes in any stack, but when it comes to building something reliable/scalable, I couldn't effectively guide the agent unless I knew the technology. And the scariest part is that I'm seeing a lot of my technical skills decreasing due to AI coding.

Reflecting on my journey, I also worry about how the new "AI native" generation of software developer is going to acquire technical depth.

So I built fata.dev: short daily spaced-repetition sessions for programming skills (Rust, CSS, React, Python, TypeScript, Architecture).

You can try it in the browser with no signup: https://fata.app/courses

It's an offline-first mobile app built with Capacitor, RxDB and Firebase. The first courses were painfully written by hand, but most content is now AI-generated. It takes about 3000 LLM calls to generate a course, and every code samples goes through compilation, linting, unit testing, AI and a final manual review.

Would very much appreciate any feedback on the product & website, what works and what could be better. Thanks!