Can ChatGPT-o1 complete a junior frontend developer's task?
When I first embarked on my journey as a junior software engineer (about 14 years ago), I remember working on a frontend project that required me to partially fill a "cloud" SVG with a solid color to represent a fancy progress bar.
Being a junior developer in a new position and eager to prove my skills, I remember frantically googling for solutions and only running into examples of filling entire SVG objects. After tinkering with this problem for some time, I came up with a nifty solution that involved manipulating gradient stops
The trick was to use a linear gradient with two stops, one with a transparent color and the other with a solid color. By manipulating the offset of these stops, the gradient would shift and gradually fill the cloud with color as the data loads.
Given the lack of online resources about this specific technique, I remember thinking it was a pretty neat trick and wanting to write a blog post about it, something I never got around to doing until now.
