I Was Told It Would Take 2 Years. I Did It in 3 Months. And Nobody Knows My Name Yet.

Last July I hit my limit on Cursor. Literally. The free tier ran out and it told me I couldn't use it anymore for a month. So I switched to Copilot. Except I didn't know how it worked. I didn't know I needed to pay $10 a month just to use it without also paying for the models underneath it. I didn't know what models even were, not really. I was just a guy in Eastern Kentucky trying to build an app. No CS degree. No team. No funding. No idea what I was doing. This was before Claude Code existed. Before every AI company had a coding agent. Before any of this was normal.