>I personally didn't like the long research process and tool setup just to begin to do something basic. I am the exact opposite of that. I love to do the basic

>I personally didn't like the long research process and tool setup just to begin to do something basic. I am the exact opposite of that. I love to do the basics and dig myself through it to understand the fundamentals of everything. I love to rebuild stuff. Though I don't research too much. I get some ideas, but basically just read about the functionallity (and theory) about what to build (a CPU, a Compiler, an OS, some webapp, you name it) and then try to come up with a solution by myself. If it kinda works, then ill reavaluate my implementation with looking at others and iterate from there. Somehow I refuse to use big libraries or frameworks (yes, you could argue the compiler is big too etc etc, but you know what I mean). This makes it unlikely to build the next million-dollar project, but I enjoy it. For a few years I had a negative self-talk and told myself that this is a bad approach. But nowadays I just love it. It's fun. I do enough serious stuff on my job and I don't need a million dollars really (even tho it'd be nice). I rarely use LLMs or SO. I try to stick through reference sheets or read through git repos myself