Building a Life Expectancy Visualizer with GPT-4o in Minutes
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@jamiemaguire.bsky.social
Warm and crisp on the edges. A bagel with a bit of bite.
Summary
The author reflects on their birthday and time passing, then describes building a life expectancy visualizer web tool using GPT-4o in under 5 minutes from their phone. The tool takes a user's date of birth, uses national life expectancy data, and renders a grid of circles where each circle represents one year — red for years already lived, green for optimal remaining years.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIt was my birthday recently. It got me considering time.
I hacked together a life expectancy visualiser from my cell phone.
Built using GPT 4o in less than 5 minutes with a single prompt.
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