Dev Log #3: Building the Website

Disclaimer: The coding-time tracker for this project is inaccurate by approximately 5–6 hours due to starting this project before stardance.

This week, I focused on building the main website for the AI calendar system. The website now includes a calendar interface where users can view and manage events, an AI chat section that allows users to create events through natural conversation, and a device pairing page for connecting an ESP32-C3 reminder device.

The biggest challenge I ran into was getting the AI to properly use tool calls. Sometimes the AI clearly understood what the user wanted, but instead of calling the event-creation function, it would simply respond with text describing what it would do. This led to a lot of testing and experimentation with prompts, tool definitions, and API settings until the AI consistently triggered the correct functions.

By the end of this development session, the website was functional, the AI could create events through tool calls, and the device pairing system was successfully integrated into the interface.