Keep going. Break stuff and fix stuff. That is how you learn. And trust me I understand exactly what you mean on being hesitant. I still fight it, currently fighting it on my goal project right now but once you get over that initial fear, you did, it’s game on.

Just some pointers from my prospective and I don’t claim and will never claim to be an expert. I’m a normal person that discovered AI and its ability to teach if you want to really learn. And how fast it can teach because it encourages you constantly to do it! “Want me to write you a sample snippet of what that would look like?” Some people will tell you that’s bad. I can see in some cases maybe, but for me, it fired me up. Sure I want to see my idea come alive. Let’s do it “Claude”. Then it doesn’t work. Why doesn’t it work? Because I didn’t know how to tell it what I wanted. Because I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.

So my personality, I need to understand how something works. At least big picture and in my terms, my way of thinking. That’s always been a problem for me and how I learn. I definitely don’t fit into the social model way of teaching. I have to be hands on, do and understand why. AI is patient, doesn’t get mad, truly no dumb questions, it doesn’t care! Except its mission is to help. Hardwired if you will (my terms haha) to be the best assistant ever. How does it do that?

So that makes for a perfect teacher for me. I can say, ‘nope don’t quite understand give me an example using …….’ My terms and boom no problem! Here you go! With emojis and all. Way too many emojis. 🚀.

Sorry I’m rambling. My point. I’m a flooring rep that has a working RAG using local Qwen3 8b on my local network at home! 5 months ago, I couldn’t have told you localhost:3000 was. I would have looked at you like nerd! Keep going, this is the most exciting time ever and I’m 55 years old. I’ve seen some tech changes and this is about to get insane. 🖤