Third day of this. After work, cook something, a bit of exercise, then back at the screen until nearly midnight. Up again at half five.
I know what that leads to. I've been there. Two weeks of everything, then nothing for a month. So I'm watching it.
Yesterday was the admin system — notifications, subscriber management, the email templates. Getting everything working properly, styled correctly, contrast readable, logo visible. That part is done now and working well. Took longer than expected because these things always do, but it's solid.
Today I hit a context window limit — the tool ran out of space mid-session and started charging extra without me fully understanding why. Took me a while to figure out what had happened and how to work around it. The fix is simple: smaller sessions, split the tasks, don't try to solve everything in one go. But getting to that understanding took time I didn't expect to spend.
Then I accidentally archived a project. Couldn't find how to get it back. That one took roughly two hours.
Two hours. On something that wasn't even the work.
This is the learning process. Every tool I'm using — I'm figuring it out as I go. There's no manual for how I'm doing this, no course I took, no team behind me who already knows the answers. It's just me, the tool, and the problem. Most of the time that's fine. Some days it eats two hours of my morning on an archive button.
What I keep noticing is that without AI I'd need four or five people with different skills to do what I'm doing alone. That's not an exaggeration. Design, code, writing, admin, planning — I'm not an expert in any of them. I'm just someone with a tool that helps me think things through, and enough stubbornness to keep going when it breaks.
Both problems today — solved. Took longer than they should have. But solved.
The unpredictable stuff is the part I keep forgetting to account for. I plan the day around the actual work and then half of it disappears into problems I didn't see coming. I need to split tasks across more days. Leave room for the things I don't know are coming yet.
I'm tired. But still going. That's enough for today. What's left is just to keep smiling.