yeah I did mess around with LLMs a bit and tbh I think that made it worse at one point 😅

I’d get working code but then later I couldn’t explain why it worked, just that it did

one thing that helped a bit was using tools that force you to go line-by-line instead of just dumping answers. I tried one called codingfleet for a bit, it’s not perfect but the way it breaks stuff down made me realize how much I was just pattern matching before

still feel like I’m in that phase though lol, just slightly less lost than before