I reached a logical near-completion to launch for Pewter – I have one component to put in before the app will fully complete it’s intentions – to book phone repair. I stopped because development costs reached a head when I put an offer in on some bricks and mortar; my own home.
App development for me has been about not software, a burning desire to be a businessman, but to consider, design and create applications.
Between then, my wife started to learn dog grooming and I said to her, confidently, I could put together a basic app to help her book customers. I regret offering but I’m happy on the journey it’s taking me.
What AI?
Google Gemini was sold to me the solution to help and when I started using it, the benefits were incredible. Am I coding apps? Am I building apps out of nowhere. No.
What I am doing is:
- Learning how flutter code is made up in dart, the syntax components of the app
- Troubleshooting basic errors in app development
- Deconstructing sections of code
- Learning how to pull widgets and update them
- Learning flutter prompts for development
- Looking up bulleting boards for content
- Learning constantly, new things
- Discovering how the building blocks of applications work (something I’d never fully grasped beyond a conceptual idea)
Ok, so now the catch: AI is a massive moral concern for both resource consumption and the ….gosh future of mankind. This emerging technology is powerful as an educational tool but the data on how AI is consuming water, electricity even is a concern.
What next?
I am a fan of doing interesting, new, exciting things. I’m not full of hubris. What it costs everyone else is a huge part of my moral makeup and personality, which I hope goes into my design choices and learning trajectory. Do no harm.
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