I made a “Motivational Quote” site

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Well, this isn’t directly related to running, but I’ll share it here anyway. A few weeks back I was tinkering with some AI development tools. Instead of just spinning up a basic “Hello World” app, I wanted to build something people could actually use. The result is a Motivational Quote Generator that makes requests to the ChatGPT API on the backend. 

I leaned on AI as much as possible during the process, and I’d say it carried me about 80% of the way there, but at blazing speed, like having a super-fast junior engineer. It generated clean JavaScript and HTML for the frontend, designed a favicon, and a proper PHP class for the backend. 

As developers, I think we need to embrace AI and start learning to prompt to really unlock its potential. 

I parked the code on a domain I picked up years ago. Please check it out: smappled.com

Cheers, 

Peter