Duward's Project Guide

Project: GPT Workout Planner Category: Productivity / AI Last updated: April 14

Note: This guide is created based on the latest state of your project repository + any notes from our discussion. It may not always reflect the most up-to-date information.

Where You Are

You have one of the stronger specs in the class: "GPT Workout Planner" has a clear description, specific MVP features (workout generation by goal, workout categories, reasonable suggestions, memory via file I/O), and thoughtful stretch goals. Your inspiration (the Liftoff app) gives good context for what you're going for.

You also have a good project structure started -- main.py exists (though it's just a hello world for now) and you have workouts/options.json and workouts/previous_workouts.json set up, which shows you're thinking about data storage.

What's missing:

  • No pyproject.toml -- Your project hasn't been initialized with uv, so OpenAI isn't installed yet.
  • Journal -- Your journal entry is still empty.
  • No working feature yet -- main.py just prints "Hello FURMAN!!!!"

Next Steps (Before Tomorrow 3pm)

  1. Scaffold your project. Use this prompt:

    Read my project.spec.md. Set up my project: initialize uv,
install the openai package, and update main.py to be a starting
point for my workout planner. Keep the existing workouts/ folder
structure with options.json and previous_workouts.json.

  2. Get one tiny slice working. A good first slice: ask the user for their goal (e.g. "build muscle" or "lose weight"), call the OpenAI API with that goal, and print a simple workout suggestion. Don't worry about file memory yet -- just get the API call working.

    Help me build the smallest possible first feature: ask the user
for a fitness goal, send it to the OpenAI API, and print a
workout suggestion. Keep it simple -- just a terminal interaction,
no file I/O yet.

  3. Write your journal entry. Fill in the Checkpoint 1 section of project.journal.md -- what you've done, what's next, any blockers.

  4. Commit and push.

Checkpoint 1 Readiness

By Thursday April 16th at 3pm, you need:

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