W2D1

Coded up a more complex game (minesweeper) in python. It's a lot more logic heavy than tictactoe. It requires tracking the actual state vs what the user sees, and implementing an algorithm for boundary detection.

• For this exercise, I set up agent skills in cursor called "coding-mentor" which had instructions SKILL.md to guide me through a problem when stuck but not give me answers which I think worked out well.

• Did AOC 2018 day 11 with the leet code group

• Had coffee chat with @Alex N Hornstein (he) (SP1'26) where I learned more about vampire bats :bat: and his idea to use LLMs to generate the code that replicate research paper analysis. Very cool. Would have been very useful in grad school instead of implementing papers without open source code to just have an LLM do it for me. A crazy extension would be replicating scientific experiments by training on all research papers and being able to predict experimental results without the lab?