In the prologue I said I ran git init on the night of June 24th. This post is about the six days that followed.
Fair warning: this is not an "AI made coding easy!" post. If anything, it's the opposite. Roughly half of what I did over those six days was distrusting what the AI produced.
The hand I was dealt
Backend dev, 9 years. Java, Kotlin, Spring, JPA — on this turf I do everything from design to deployment alone.
But: nine years of MySQL and MariaDB only. I picked PostgreSQL for this project for the deeply professional reason that I'd always wanted to try it. So even on my home turf, one thing was brand new.
