I Became a Developer Again Without Meaning To How spotting a visibility gap pulled me back into building, this time with AI as my co-pilot. I wasn’t trying to build a tool. I was trying to …

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Code Like A Girl

A former developer returns to coding after 15+ years to build a gender diversity tracker for Substack's Technology leaderboards. The journey involves learning modern tools (VS Code, GitHub, Chrome extensions) with AI assistance (ChatGPT, Copilot), pivoting from UI scraping to API calls, and ultimately settling on a Python/SQLite/Streamlit stack. The project highlights both the challenges of being a beginner again and the accessibility of building with AI as a co-pilot.

I Became a Developer Again Without Meaning To

How spotting a visibility gap pulled me back into building, this time with AI as my co-pilot.

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