Zachary Cohn's Blog
This journal-entry style blog post chronicles my first few weeks of building software entirely with AI tools like ChatGPT and v0.dev. I’m including some learnings along the way - mostly so I don’t forget about them in the future. While I’m numbering the days sequentially, and Day 1 and 2 were adjacent, other days may have gaps in between them as I worked on other projects.
I live in Seattle on a fairly wooded property. Every summer since we’ve moved here, we end up with swarms of fruit flies in the kitchen. They congregate around the compost bin and the fruit bowl (where there are always lots of bananas). We aren’t slobbish - I do the dishes and wipe down the counters every night, take the compost out and wash the bin 2-3x a week. Keeping everything washed and clean…
Equifax. Ugh!
On my birthday for the last two years, I’ve made lists of the Top 24 Things I Did At 24, and The Top 25 Things I Did At 25. It’s a fun yearly tradition that I’m continuing. Hopefully, for every year I grow older I’m forced to do more interesting things.
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On my birthday last year, I made a list of the Top 24 Things I Did At 24. It was a fun project, and I decided I’d make it a yearly tradition. That way, every year I grow older I’m forced to do more and more interesting things.
After twenty hours of traveling, we finally landed in Vienna, Austria. The first stop on #pricelinetrip. There are four of us.
I’ve been thinking a lot about routines since last December. My friend Sebastian is incredible at maintaining routines, and my friend Tynan considers routines one of the secret ingredients to consistency, which he thinks of as his superpower.
“It’s 5:45pm. We’ll just head upstairs and get some rest. Lets regroup around 8pm and go out.The four of us headed up to our room. My friends laid down to take naps, while I worked on how I was going to get from Munich to Prague to catch my next flight.
The very first time I did any serious public speaking was the final pitch at a Startup Weekend.