Eight months ago, I couldn't write a single line of code. I was just a guy in Tunisia trying to figure out how to make things work on the web, tinkering with old Volkswagen engines—specifically trying to wrap my head around the suspension geometry of a Golf MK3 and the quirky reliability of Passat B6 diesels—and dreaming of building real software. Fast forward to today, and I just shipped a self-learning vector database application on AWS for a massive international hackathon. It feels l...