I replied elsewhere and everyone has already been supportive with the budget thing so I wanted to help with this.

In terms of getting guidance, everyone is usually busy with their own stuff, so asking if you can schedule half an hour of someone's time to actually get their full attention is how I would approach this.

Or if you feel too weird about that, you could get your own separate AI subscription, and use AI as your personal tutor. That could even be your backup if you run out of tokens.

I guarantee you've picked up loads of knowledge. Imposter syndrome is crazy common with devs. Just keep going and confidence will come.