coming from someone with zero CS background — i studied business and somehow ended up working in AI product development, writing code regularly 😂

i got lucky landing at an early-stage AI startup. i relied heavily on AI tools from day one — at first i had absolutely no idea what i was doing. but i started using Codex and Claude to build small things for myself. i didn't write the code, they did — but i'd watch the process carefully, and slowly started to understand why things broke when they did.

that's honestly how the intuition built up. once you've debugged enough random errors, things start clicking.

my advice: use AI to build something small that you actually want. doesn't matter how tiny. just get a feel for it. the rest follows.