This week I attempted to work on the frontend design of the launchpage and brokerage-linking page. I managed to complete both pages with an initial draft that can then be iterated on and synced with the backend for the next couple of weeks. I started on the schema for our database but still have some tables to complete before it’s finished.
AI was a huge help this week as I was able to write all the boilerplate code for both pages and debug the code as well. The code was almost 100% correct for what I wanted, I just had to resize the buttons, adjust some of the colors and fix the paths to the images. I used ChatGPT4 for this week and I also had DaLLE generate an app logo for our project.
In addition to boilerplate code, I used the AI to help me debug certain problems I was running into such as setting up my venv file for our python backend. I got answers that fixed it for me. One thing I think is important when debugging a problem is to start with a question and then later on in the chat thread you can just copy and paste error messages. So with the previous context ChatGPT will know exactly what you are asking and what you have already tried. This isn’t perfect, and sometimes it’s solutions don’t work or it might not have all the context but it at least lead me on the right track where I could then have a better idea of what to search online or play around with to fix the bug.
I’m looking forward to next week and seeing how far AI helping me code can go for finishing up the pages and integrating the backend. Also for helping to design the database schema.
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