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ASCII.jp publishes author interview with Ami Otsuka on #100 Days Challenge
On January 14, 2025 ASCII.jp published "An interview with Ami Otsuka, author of the much-discussed #100 Days Challenge: I Built 100 Apps in 100 Days and My Life Changed," three days after the book reached bookshops. The interviewer was Satoshi Endo of Kadokawa Ascii Research Laboratories.
Among Otsuka's remarks preserved in the section headings: "Design is everything. The code itself no longer has much value." She also argues that the competition is not generative AI but colleagues who use it well.
The final heading is "I sold all my introductory programming books to a second-hand shop."
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About Ami Otsuka
Author and app developer; representative of Hundreds LLC. Starting in October 2023, while a student at Chuo University, she built an app a day with ChatGPT for 100 consecutive days and posted each one to X, a record published as #100 Days Challenge: I Built 100 Apps in 100 Days and My Life Changed (Nikkei BP, 2025). Named to Forbes JAPAN's Women In Tech 30 in 2026. She is now based in Thailand, writing, speaking and building apps.
