The power of LLMs in software development
Using a local Llama 3 to clean a messy email-extraction dataset — and what I learned about using LLMs as copilots.
Joshua Tabakhoff — Writing
Essays and case studies on building software.
Latest posts
Behind the scenes: How WizzMe has been a total failure
A SwiftUI side project, Apple's rejection, and the story of an April Fool's app that never shipped.
Internland: the rise and fall of a side project
A scrapper-powered job board for internships in France. What went well, what didn't, and why I moved on.
Case Study: Building Hugger, a Tech for Good app to listen and prevent harassment in school
Two weeks at HETIC, five teammates, a meaningful prototype against school harassment.
Move on (S2020): lessons from my last side projects
Post-mortems for Walk and ClearList, and what I learned about quitting at the right moment.
Case Study: Building TeamCook in a week
Eight days, react-native, WebRTC, and one prototype that's currently napping on my phone.
Cost Zero, recession, and global lockdown
Notes from the first weeks of lockdown, on uncertainty, productivity pressure, and the Cost Zero of digital tools.
Waking up as a student maker
Lessons for young makers — being different is a superpower, and you're early in the process.
Dealing with an early-stage mental breakdown
A note for student-makers and teen-makers on the misfit feeling and how to climb back out of it.
Should I have a cofounder?
A great question to ask when starting a project — but isn't it better to ask why?
Invest in your learning
Keep learning — no one can do it for you.