I thought I understood programming.
SMRTR summary
Tutorial hell is real — watching hundreds of hours of coding videos can feel productive, but following code and creating code are completely different skills. The fix is brutally simple: stop watching and start building tiny, broken projects. Struggling through bugs, rebuilding from scratch, and asking specific questions (not copying AI output) is what makes programming patterns actually stick.
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