Full text - "Started just following tutorials and reading a lot, then I'd want to expand on things so I'd give it the code I had, told it what I needed to do and then asked it to explain the new code to me.
It does a great job of basically writing you a tutorial tailored to your exact needs.
Then over time it just becomes easier to spot things yourself and edit/fix things you didn't even know existed a week beforehand.
Structurally it's so much nicer to look at than PHP+HTML too which is nice coming from WP dev.
Plus I needed to pick a language to learn for building my own security tools, etc and Python is perfect for it.
Too many upsides for me to ever write it off as a fad.
Learning to ask the right questions takes it from a fun toy to a Sr dev that teaches you, and a Jr dev that does the tedious things for you.
I could never go back to the way it was before
Google searches and stack overflow walked so AI could run "
Full disclosure: I'm a Technical PMM at Retool, which makes me a little biased, but I'm also a developer who’s seen these sorts of projects from both sides.
I generally agree with most of the commenters here, that you need a team of just a couple experienced people to start building your in-house platform. But when you're constrained with that small of a team, building something full-code can make it tough to find the momentum you need to get any one solution over the finish line.
If you already have a solid software development process or a team already in place, maybe going with full-code could work. On the other hand, we have a customer that replaced a custom-built React dashboard that was powering their whole business with an app entirely built in Retool, and let them work with the team they already had in place. Empowering the entire team is one the reasons Retool exists. They’ve been prototyping new features incredibly fast, even the non-technical folks on their team can contribute, and they haven’t had to worry about managing freelancers or attracting and hiring a team.
You've got a lot of choices ahead of you and a lot of good advice here in the comments. Feel free to reach out to keanan@retool.com if I can help sort through any of it!
It's pretty much as straightforward as deploying your Python script (and any dependencies with requirements.txt) and setting up your schedule for when you want it to run!
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Not much context here, but built https://daborsneeze.com/ after a random interaction gave me the idea at a conference. Adding images slowly over time but there's really no ultimate goal there.
Regarding the deployment and testing, this is a direction I hope to take the content on the Branch CI (https://www.branchci.com/) and WP Pusher (https://wppusher.com/) blogs in the coming months!
Full text - "Started just following tutorials and reading a lot, then I'd want to expand on things so I'd give it the code I had, told it what I needed to do and then asked it to explain the new code to me.
It does a great job of basically writing you a tutorial tailored to your exact needs.
Then over time it just becomes easier to spot things yourself and edit/fix things you didn't even know existed a week beforehand.
Structurally it's so much nicer to look at than PHP+HTML too which is nice coming from WP dev.
Plus I needed to pick a language to learn for building my own security tools, etc and Python is perfect for it.
Too many upsides for me to ever write it off as a fad.
Learning to ask the right questions takes it from a fun toy to a Sr dev that teaches you, and a Jr dev that does the tedious things for you.
I could never go back to the way it was before
Google searches and stack overflow walked so AI could run "