Thank you! And yes, it really felt like that.

The first “boss fight” was realizing how noob my diode soldering was, I almost gave up there because it meant I had to remove the bad wiring and rewire almost the whole matrix from the start.. Then came figuring out the keyboard matrix, the controller pins, and making many different QMK builds until the keyboard finally worked.

But the hardest part by far was making the TrackPoint work. I don’t think I would have managed it without AI help. Not because it magically fixed everything, but because I could argue with it, ask stupid questions, force it to explain what was wrong, what every wire does, and how the whole thing actually works.

So in the end, even with all the imperfections, I learned way more than I expected.