I Stopped Letting AI Code For Me. Here's What I Actually Learned.

Hey, I'm a final-year CS student from Tunisia. I started learning programming two years ago. Like most beginners I didn't know where to start, so I used AI for ideas. Then for code structure. Then for everything. After a year of "coding" I realized something uncomfortable: I hadn't actually become the programmer I wanted to be. I understood concepts at a high level but I didn't own any of it. The moment it hit me was a simple PostgreSQL credentials bug. My Claude context window ran out and I was stuck for two hours on something I should have been able to debug in ten minutes. Two hours. On a credentials error.That was enough. So I decided to relearn from scratch no AI writing code, just me and the documentation. Two weeks ago I started building DevLog: a personal developer productivity API where you log your coding sessions, track what you worked on, get weekly summaries, and search your history. Simple enough to build alone. Rich enough to teach every backend concept that matters.So f