Day 5 of the Chatbot Challenge - Backend work

After a long weekend spent with my loved ones and the kids, I came back feeling recharged, and wow, today was incredibly productive! In just about five or six hours of work, I managed to knock out 10 endpoints across two different services, all fully unit-tested with 75% coverage. That’s about 800 lines of code—though depending on how you count it, with all the vertical spacing I used, the number might be misleading. Either way, it was a solid chunk of work, and I’m really pleased with the outcome.

The most interesting part of my day was noticing how tools like Coursor seem to improve as the codebase grows. It’s pretty amazing. If you have a solid structure and consistent coding style—which is easier to maintain when you’re the sole developer—tools like Coursor really start to shine. It seems to pick up on your patterns and preferences, making it quicker and easier to add new features.

Tomorrow, I’ll be diving into some frontend work, which might shift things a bit. Coursor’s performance could drop since it’s mostly been working on the backend so far, but since all the code is in the same repository, I’m curious to see if it can handle the full-stack context. Should be an interesting experiment.