After attending several courses on cloud code it didn’t take me long to muster up the courage to build some seriously useful apps. But I struggled with some issues, like the ridiculously high rate at which I was burning AI tokens, so I turned to OpenAI’s ChatGPT for advice on how I could reduce the tokens I was burning on the cloud, and it recommended setting up some skills to reduce my usage. In the process, I somehow learned what a linter was, and I was amazed at how I could be so far behind in software engineering, yet create new Windows programs so quickly.
So, armed with a somewhat lower burn rate, I proceeded to create a portfolio tracker that consolidates all of my investments in one place (minus the portfolios chosen by my students, which I track more religiously).
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