I'm a self-taught builder, not a career dev. I lean on AI to help me a lot when my syntax breaks and explanations are rather verbose, I read a lot of

docs, and I break things constantly. So this is a build story from that seat — the

Midnight Expert sprint, everything I shipped, and every wall I hit getting there.

If you're also learning this stuff, the messy parts below are the useful parts.

The whole sprint ran through the Midnight Expert plugins inside Claude Code