Author: Kevin Riemer

To wrap up this project, I wanted to write a post with my final thoughts. Overall, this term I learned many valuable lessons. First, AI is great at generating starter code for a task for you. In many cases, you will have to edit this code to integrate it properly and guarantee functionality, but it…

This past week, I focused on additional content/pages to add to our project, as well as improving the frontend design of our website. There were definitely some more lessons I learned about AI along the way this week. It was very apparent to me this week that when working with multiple code files, you need…

This week I worked primarily on finishing our implementation of data storage within a session so that the user is able to have a personalized experience when they log in. I also implemented functionality for users to be able to log out of a session and be redirected back to the website’s home page. Finally,…

This week, I spent my time adding the initial implementation of user data storage for a currently logged in user on our website so that a user can get a personalized experience while using our app. I also added another webpage, and implemented a couple more backend queries to display more information personalized to our…

This week, I focused on both frontend and backend work. ChatGPT was helpful, but also fell short in some areas! On the frontend, I tidied up our login page and our user-home page. Dev picked out some colors for another page of our web app, so I wanted to match them to remain consistent throughout…

Be as specific as possible when writing your prompts to the AI.

This first week was all about getting our project all setup so that we can run with it moving forward. There wasn’t a ton of AI use yet, but there was some! We first created a team standards document, in which we laid out how our team will operate and what guidelines we will follow.…