Tag: life

Debugging Made Easier: Embrace AI in Development

I have been vibing coding a lot. A lot that now that Figma is enforcing the credits, I ran out of them. I ran out of the Enterprise account credits and my personal one ran out, but it reset in one day. My take is that just now with AI agents such as the one in Perplexity inside Comet and Computer, I have been able to pay more attention to debugging. Before I would debug without agents through prompts and I would lose a lot of credits. Now I am more economical and tech-savvy because I want to outline the design plan with the design system with tokens using certain frameworks or not before I start.

I ask AI to add .md files explaining all the functionalities too. Meanwhile, I use MomOps.org as my base to build:

  • Tinytripindex.com (Traveling with babies can be daunting, and knowing which hotels accommodate babies 6+ is not an easy task; this site makes it easier for you.)
  • Carefolio.io (I created a rank, so you will know which companies invest in and care about women.)
  • Femhealth.science (my main project and where I spend all my Figma Make credits.)
  • Archive of Possible (repository of lost projects, such as vaccines, research, etc.)
  • Countme In (about dyscalculia.)
  • ReturnKit (about the childcare gap and mothers returning to work.)
  • Littlebites.io (pivoted and now I rank baby food.)

I also have other projects going, but those are the main ones… nevermind, I do outside my day job work hours, so progress is not linear.

I have to say, doing that enhanced my work skills as well. It helped during maternity leave and postpartum too; it helped to stay a bit sane.

Starting over

How many times have I started a blog, a WordPress, and even other platforms? Honestly, too many to count. And here I am, having signed up for this WordPress, already regretting it. Chances are, I\’ll probably move the domain to WordPress.org and host it elsewhere because I don\’t want to pay just to customize things.

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In my creative process, I need to brainstorm, and eventually, I want to get back into coding just for fun an that will be interesting now that I have AI to help . It\’s tough. Last year was a whirlwind of changes for me. I got pretty busy, decided to stop being a UX/UI designer, aka Product Designer, and became what I really wanted – a UX researcher. It\’s fascinating how, when I really want something, I have this immense strength and adaptability.

I\’m pretty resilient, and unfortunately, I learned that in childhood… but you know what they say, right? People who thrive in life have usually gone through some sort of trauma… just the right amount, not enough to turn into a vice. Maybe my vice was food.