I’m coming up on day 30 of 90 I had an original burst of productivity, and then fell into old ways. I can totally see why ‘sprints’ are a thing. It’s so easy to get lost down rabbit holes and lose the forest for the trees that very short-term, focused bursts have been the only ways I can be reliably productive. This blog post about pushing through while making games was a really good read, and seems equally applicable to tons of things beyond making games....
Went to Chicago, had a GREAT time. Best trip I’ve ever taken. Just me and my wife getting a chance to reconnect on our own. No schedules, no pressures. Amazing. Chicago remains my favourite American city. So much to do, awesome food. Second City mainstage was unbelievable. Saw the Tedeschi Trucks band at the Chicago Theater, really cool. It’s basically a cooler Toronto. More importantly…relaxed for a minute. Haven’t done that in a long time....
Last few days have been a bit of a whirlwind. After creating and validating the proof of concept, it was time to sit down and think about an MVP. Assuming an MVP is a simple version of the product that (a) works, and (b) you’re allowed to charge for, this involves creating my own content database instead of stealing it (obviously). Running with the theme of building things as simply as possible, this in my current opinion means using my professional experience to whip up a Notion database (really, a collection of pages) of useful material, and then using Langchain’s Notion QA recipe to deploy something simple....
Day 88! Struggled yesterday and this morning to get my terrible MVP online. Actually, it’s not even an MVP. It’s really a proof of concept, if barely that. But Y Combinator says if it’s not shit, you waited too long to ship. So F it. Tried sticking it up on Vercel’s python runtime through a basic Flask app, but should’ve realized that the limits and timeouts relating to a serverless function architecture wouldn’t be the easiest way to get it up and running....
Yesterday was a strong start, but I suspect keeping up the momentum will be the real challenge. Accomplished the following: learned the basics for LlamaIndex (formerly GPTIndex) and Langchain found and recorded some examples and resources for deploying chatbots built on said structures isolated some evidence-related resources to feed into a prototype, which even (*gasp*) required me to spend some upfront money! created a few working chatbots over said material, one of which ultimately seems promising picked a kitchy product name without overthinking it (which, for me, is huge) - “lawbrarian” –> short, ....