# Session 01 — Introduction (April 16, 2026)

## Subscriptions & Budgeting

- Available at Flatiron: Claude, ChatGPT Plus, Copilot, Gemini
- Model stacks: Claude (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus), OpenAI (ChatGPT, Codex)
- Open question: budgeting across FI, CCQ, and personal budgets

## What Tasks Have People Tried?

- Test generation
- Code optimization (profiling on its own)
- Plotting, scripting
- Debugging errors that are hard to understand
- Searching for bugs
- VS Code with Copilot — daily usage, auto-pick model, adding features to CoQuí
- Accelerating the research process
- Quick idea generation
- Writing notes, papers, grammar
- Writing documentation, examples, painful formatting
- LaTeXing handwritten notes (ChatGPT)
- Extracting experimental data from screenshots

## Topics Requested for Future Sessions

- Setups and toolchains
- Building deterministic tools for recurring tasks (skills, custom commands)
- Good documentation — for humans and for agents
- MCP servers, subagents
- How to be effective and productive
- Framework comparisons
- Understanding financing, budgeting, token efficiency
- Mini hackathons

## Decisions

- Start with biweekly meetings
- Create a Slack channel for ongoing discussion between sessions