Full disclosure, I am not writing this with AI, I feel that personal feel is slightly lost when trying to write meaningful personal posts. Saying that I am so not against using the tools available to help me in delivering quicker and not face the frustration getting stuck on the more complex side of tech.
I mean I love a challenge but why spend countless hours scratching my head, get frustrated and eventually lose my momentum. I have tried so many new frameworks and languages only not to get to the point of getting what I want to do to get stuck in the logs and error codes. So with the advent of AI tools within IDEs such as ChatGPTs Codex and Google’s Gemini I lean on them to help me through those though times, when late at night I feel the urge to either smash my keyboard, turn my laptop into a permanent garden ornament or just simply give up and answer call and change career and become that barista.
At the beginning I was finding the results not what I was expecting, and I was even prompting in a very polite way saying “please” and “thank you” and the end of every request.
I am now able to create apps I can run locally faster than my colleagues can set up an excel file. Is it me or do Excel files still form the backbone of most tech programs in the wild?
The one app I am developing (vibe coding) is a bespoke team management application, I was using the usual tools like reminders and notes to manage my team, and before I forget the ever useful workday. The problem I was facing was managing what the actual team were working on day to day and tracking the priorities I was working on personally. I run this application locally but made sure I was using persistent data (so when I load it up again I still have all the information from the days before). Through out the next few posts I will be be going through how and the approach that was taken and any updates I have made to the application.
This application was designed, developed and tested within 7 hours. I will continue to iterate and add more functionality.
I will be setting up a Quality Prompt Wiki so we can build up our knowledge together. Of course I have populated this with test data and made sure that the readme is up to date and easy to read.
