Day 0 Reflections

Day 0 was tough, but exciting. The morning was rough due to some physical problems, but I was able to pull it back.

I roamed around downtown San Francisco, and wrote (along with GPT-4) a LOT of Rust.

Some reflections:

• I’m probably 3 times faster as a developer with GPT-4 than without it.
• Rust is a pretty good language. Rock solid tooling, and the borrow checker is starting to make sense
• Vanilla javascript + server side rendering can get you pretty far
• Lot of recommendations for either NextJS or HTMX.
  • Probably going to try NextJS first
• Downtown San Francisco has beautiful architecture and spaces for working
• Bummer I didn’t get to go to the Mechanics Institute, but there will always be next time.

In general I’ll paint today as a huge success, I have a prototype that’s working pretty dam well. It needs a couple more days, but I think I created the base: