I Built a Quantum Circuit Simulator Without Understanding Quantum Physics

A few days ago I set myself a weird challenge. I'm not a quantum physicist. I'm not a Rust developer. But I wanted to know: can you build something genuinely useful in a technical domain you don't personally understand, by directing AI carefully and being honest about what you don't know? The answer, I think, is yes. But it's more complicated than that. The Gap I Saw I was looking at quantum computing tools and noticed something odd. Every visual quantum circuit editor is either a web app, a Python library that generates static plots, or a cloud-based service. Nothing just runs as a native binary on your desktop. No install process. No Python environment to manage. No browser required. For someone learning quantum computing, that friction matters. You want to drag a gate onto a wire, see the Bloch sphere update in real time, step through the circuit gate by gate, and understand what's happening. You shouldn't need to pip install anything or log into IBM's cloud. So I decided to build t