It does not take very long after attending multiple courses on Claude Code for me to have the courage to start building some seriously useful apps. But I had to deal with some issues, like the ridiculously high rate at which I'm burning AI tokens, so I turned on OpenAI's ChatGPT to advise on how I can reduce the tokens I'm burning on Claude, and it recommended installing a few skills to lower my usage. In the process, I somehow learnt what a linter is, and I was marvelling at how I could be so far behind in software engineering yet still churning out new Windows programmes at such a rate.
So, armed with a somewhat lower burn rate, I proceeded to create a portfolio tracker that consolidates all my investments in one place (sans the portfolio picks my students make, which I track more religiously) and provides a helicopter view of my investments. So I...