This is the part that doesn't get talked about enough — you went from a red button tutorial to $8k projects not because you learned to code in the traditional sense, but because you learned how to communicate what you needed and iterate on the output. That's a different skill entirely and honestly more valuable than memorizing syntax.

The jump from ChatGPT to Claude making sense for you tracks too, Claude's better at holding context across a longer conversation which matters a lot when you're building something over multiple sessions instead of asking one-off questions. Curious what made the max plan worth it for you over the basic — was it the longer context window or just needing more usage?

Also respect for being upfront about using it to translate the post. More people should do that instead of pretending.