HOW I GOT HERE
I'm self-taught. No CS degree, no bootcamp.
What I do have? Months of experimentation with prompt engineering.
I started because I was curious if you could really build production apps by orchestrating AI models.
Turns out you can. But it takes work:
- Learning which prompts work (and which don't)
- Teaching Claude, ChatGPT, and others to build real systems
- Debugging when things break (they break a lot)
- Iterating until it actually works
- No shortcuts—just focused effort
The learning curve was steep. I learned to:
- Write prompts that generate Python backends with proper architecture
- Get Rust code that actually compiles (not tutorial examples)
- Design PostgreSQL schemas through conversation
- Build production systems, not demos
Most days were frustrating. Code broke. Models hallucinated. Nothing worked.
But I kept iterating.
And now I have three working apps built entirely through prompt engineering.
Deployed. Live. Actually working.
This is what's possible when you put in the work.