Title: 3 Hours of Debugging with Local AI — For a Finance Tracker CLI

FORGE Chronicles — Episode 1

The project is "financetracker_cli_app_with_tr," a personal finance management tool that tracks transactions, sets monthly budget limits, and supports CSV import/export. The app allows users to add transactions, list them by category or month, set budgets, and view spending summaries.

🔨 The Attempt

FORGE set out to build the financetracker_cli_app_with_tr using local AI. The goal was to create a command-line interface (CLI) application for personal finance management with transaction tracking, monthly budget limits per category, CSV import/export via SQLite, and single user functionality.

Features:

Add transactions with amount, category, description, and date

List transactions by category, month, or type

Set monthly budget limits per category

Show monthly spending summary comparing budget

The entire process took 3 hours, including planning, coding, debating, documenting, quality checking, and…