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+Week 826
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+Week beginning Monday, 11th November 2024.
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+[Chris][chris-lowis] and I started work on a new client project this week!
+We've been asked to explore whether we can build a primarily-mobile [React][reactjs] app to simplify and improve an existing labour itensive, manual and error-prone process.
+We've agreed on an initial budget of up to 24 days to come up with something that allows the client to decide whether it's worth them investing in the software.
+If they decide it's worth the investment then it's possible there'll be some work to productionise it in early 2025.
+We started on Tuesday and, after spending the first day meeting the team, have spent a good couple of days building.
+I'm really happy with what we've achieved in a short period of time: the combination of pairing and utilising [Claude][claude]/[GitHub Copilot][github-copilot] means we've been able to get to a working prototype really quickly.
+As James [mentioned last week](/week-825#:~:text=although%20nothing%20about%20the%20code%20was%20particularly%20complicated) these LLMs haven't (yet!) done anything that's outside our ability but they have allowed us to make progress quicker than if we were trying to do it using a more traditional approach: which gives us more time to focus on the features/UX that we really care about.
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+Our thanks to [James][james-mead] who stepped back to allow Chris and I to take this project on.
+We recently noticed that our [individual pots](/week-825#individual-pots) have become a bit lopsided so having Chris and I work on this client project while James takes some time off should start to even things out a bit.
+Thanks, James!
+
+Hoping you have a good weekend.
+
+-- Chris
+
+[chris-lowis]: /chris-lowis
+[claude]: https://www.anthropic.com/claude
+[github-copilot]: https://github.com/features/copilot
+[james-mead]: /james-mead
+[reactjs]: https://reactjs.org/
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