Day 2 with AI assist

The picture above is of a bishop-like piece having broken a prong off of an enemy bishop-like piece. Now that piece can no longer move in the direction of the missing prong. I wrote this game (Prongs) for iOS and MacOS in Swift. It's in TestFlight now, but you can only play against a pretty mediocre game engine, not other humans. Let me know if you want to get on my TestFlight list. So I embarked on creating a Django back end on Heroku so humans could play other humans. I really hadn't given the details much thought, but once I got into it it kind of ballooned on me. I'm trying out Cursor as my AI assisted IDE. This morning, before coffee, I was getting annoyed by thinking of all of the details I would have to figure out, and then I remembered that I could just type in a prompt... api function to start a new game I got a pretty detailed bunch of Django code that would work for a game like Battleship. At the end of the pages of code, the assistant writes: The game will be created in a "waiting" status until another player joins. Would you like me to add the endpoint for joining a game as well? I'm almost 68. This is a very welcome new development at this point in my career. I was telling my wife Louise about it and she said, yeah, it's like having a sous chef. Perfect!

Apr 18, 2025 - 19:29

The picture above is of a bishop-like piece having broken a prong off of an enemy bishop-like piece. Now that piece can no longer move in the direction of the missing prong.

I wrote this game (Prongs) for iOS and MacOS in Swift. It's in TestFlight now, but you can only play against a pretty mediocre game engine, not other humans. Let me know if you want to get on my TestFlight list.

So I embarked on creating a Django back end on Heroku so humans could play other humans. I really hadn't given the details much thought, but once I got into it it kind of ballooned on me.

I'm trying out Cursor as my AI assisted IDE. This morning, before coffee, I was getting annoyed by thinking of all of the details I would have to figure out, and then I remembered that I could just type in a prompt...

api function to start a new game

I got a pretty detailed bunch of Django code that would work for a game like Battleship. At the end of the pages of code, the assistant writes:

The game will be created in a "waiting" status until another player joins. Would you like me to add the endpoint for joining a game as well?

I'm almost 68. This is a very welcome new development at this point in my career. I was telling my wife Louise about it and she said, yeah, it's like having a sous chef. Perfect!