How I used AI to port my hacky VBA script to Go (without knowing Go)

I’ve always felt that reputation management tools have a major blind spot: they are great at tracking web and social media text, but they completely overlook what’s being actually spoken inside YouTube videos. To solve this for myself at my previous job, I built a hacky Excel VBA script. It got the job done, but it was clunky, tied to Excel, and I kept forgetting to run it. I really wanted to build a proper, lightweight standalone version. There was just one problem: I wanted to build it in Go, and my Go experience was exactly zero. The AI Advantage: Architecting vs.