What's this about?
This is the first in a series of informal videos in which I'm building a brand new Rails app, step-by-step and with (almost?) nothing edited out. All the thoughts that go into building the app will be on display, and we'll talk through them together. We're gonna build an app that beats ChatGPT at its own game, by … using OpenAI's API to teach people Japanese conversation skills.
Author
Justin Searls
Co-founded testdouble.com
Programming is inherently difficult, but most innovations heralded by the industry attempt to paper over its complexity, inadvertently making it harder for people to understand how to build and maintain working software. My mission is to identify, explain, and mitigate this phenomenon.