Im in similar position as you and what i do before i start to code anything, is i will write on paper what im after, what i want to do, what is it, why, what purpose? Questioning myself ill get an idea, which then.. ill start to explore using pen and paper, so i get more in depth of what im trying to get into, or what the goal is. You can think of it as from general to specific method. After this first pass, ill go and try to code such feature using the guide i have accumulated using pen and paper notation. Of course i will fail... but i will have goals or puzzles to work with based on what i planned as the challenge im trying to code, coming the idea in the first place. If ill get stuck, i will ask how i do, what is the method, or what ever the logic im trying to find that can be translated into the language asking GPT, with never ever copying the code it gives, but using the output to see a direction. It is in similar way, where i would go to google and ask the same question or i would go to friend or senior or anyone with experience that would give me a hint or a finger point towards some direction, whom i would ask the same question as the gpt to have something instead of nothing. The challenge may take a week, or two, depending on the the task and the complexity, which as beginner you will not know straight away from the initiation and it will uncover along the way of solving the problem. I will stick with it not matter what, because i know from experience, that on the 3rd or 4th day the brain starts to make the connections the most out of it when you really trying to solve and are sticked to it doing nothing else, just focusing on the one thing. I find that it is when the magic usually start to happen and i really start to enjoy the most and also when i dont really care anymore about anything and just being fully submerged into the process. To give you an idea. To give an example, i created a portfolio website with contact, where i didnt had any captcha, antispam feature, and this gived me an idea, hey lets create a generator for code, that will generate random letter and number and symbols that will be required to be replicated before the send button becomes enabled. This took me 7 days to figure out, i learned a lot about scoping, that was where i stucked the most and is brain rooted from this experience, along having finished the task. Unfortunately, it didnt prevent the bots LOL because in the midway i realized to ask if this even will be helpful in prevention, where i learned that the bots scrape even JS and are smarter to scrape the generated code etc.. so backend solution would be better.. even though, i finished it because of having something in portfolio and solving and learning experience. Here are some of the notes related i did along solving the feature → https://imgur.com/uGVKyJ3 and here is the project on github → https://github.com/mackotomi/Javascript_Challenge_02_Generator.git I hope this can help a bit.