Around 1.5 months ago, I took on two projects that uses Next.js and Supabase. I was initially very excited to have real projects to work on, with the guidance of seasoned professionals. But after working on each project for around 5-10 hours, I stalled. There just seemed to be so many nitty-gritty little things I had to learn in an unpleasant stop-and-start fashion. For example, Next.js clearly uses the directory structure to mirror different URL routes.

Just a few markers, before my memory is corrupted by new experiences. I started programming from scratch in August 2022. The very first steps were with Scratch (a tool mainly for children developed by MIT), and then C. The jump from Scratch to C was huge. C is a compiled language, and with the School 42 curriculum a lot of hard work was required to make even the simplest thing (e.

To tease out PromptBro’s capacity to help users create unique LLM experiences, I decided on a new side-project: creating a minimal legal chatbot. By now (August 2024), the risks of using LLMs for legal research are well known. The tale of the American lawyer who submitted hallucinated cases to Court has become part of legal folklore. On the other end of the spectrum, there are already a number of dedicated startups in the crowded LegalTech eco-system surrounding the use of LLMs.

Following my previous blogpost, I have made a chat agent on PromptBros to illustrate the input of advocates in crafting a plea in mitigation. As a student, I was sometimes quite puzzled about the value the advocate adds when conducting a plea in mitigation. In some cases, the value is clear: where there is sentencing guidelines from the legislation or the Court of Appeal, or when a case is an excepted offence for which suspended sentence is available.

After feeding my previous blogpost into my PromptPros account, my Llama Sonar Chat agent quickly generated a passable first draft HTML file to work on. The only slight issue I encountered was that the return value of a spliced array is another array: so to get the number out I have to do let move = emptySpacesArray.splice(index, 1)[0] The first draft is now at this commit. Directions for next steps: