I burned 1.5 billion AI tokens ($2,000) in one month, generated and deleted 65,000 lines of code, then spent 48 hours learning C++ from scratch to build a compiler. The result: Ampersand, a deterministic dataflow language with WORM immutability, exclusive OS memory reservation, and 7 enforced memory laws. It's not production-ready. The README is a disaster. But it works. This is the story of how I went from generating to shipping, why AI-assisted development needs better foundations, and what ha...