Dad’s Bag of Tricks – Agentic AI Demo
Background
My preschool-aged kids are getting into jokes and trivia—but, contrary to popular belief, becoming a dad does not magically grant world‑class joke‑telling powers.
So I turned to Goose, an open‑source agentic AI builder, and asked it to create a kid‑friendly web app that can dish out jokes, trivia, and mini‑games on demand.
Goose took my vision prompt and went from zero to a fully working site in under three minutes. I then spent about seven minutes testing the app and asking Goose to vibe code in a few feature enhancements.
What you’ll see
| Timestamp | Highlight |
|---|---|
| 0:00 – 0:10 | Hype sequence for aiwithzach.com |
| 0:10 – 1:20 | Goose autogenerates the entire website (timeline sped‑up ×3). |
| 1:20 – 6:49 | My voice‑over walk‑through of the live site plus a Goose prompting recap. |
▶️ Watch the demo
Tool stack
- Codename Goose – open source agentic orchestrator | Download here
- Claude Sonnet 4 – large language model from Anthropic with API calls via Goose | Configure API key here
- OpenAI Sora – generated the hype sequence intro video | Generate videos here
- Suno AI – generated the synth audio overlay for demo | Mix beats here
- iMovie – stitching the content together | Download in App Store here
Outcome
Kid-tested and approved, this little app already has my kids asking for “just one more round”. So building out a much larger question database is going to be coming sonon.
Whenever I’m in a pinch to deliver a silly joke or need to satisfy my kids’ endless curiosity, I can now steathily open my site and let the AI run the show. I don’t expect this app to rival the popularlity of Angry Birds (dating myself here), but building a working prototype in about ten minutes felt like cheating—in the best possible way.
The game is live at https://aiwithzach.com/bag-of-tricks/.