Yesterday, I hit the rate limits on all my AI subscriptions. Kimi K2. Claude Pro. Copilot. I was blocked. For two hours. I was just sitting there, staring at the message in Copilot CLI… wondering what to do next. Do I: Buy extra credits? Upgrade my plans to some “pro max” tier Or just code by myself like I used to? First option = more money. And honestly, I wasn’t ready to invest more. Second option = free, but let’s be real… slower. More friction. All the “boring” parts: syntax, class declarations, wiring things together. Still, I chose to code on my own. And weirdly… I was excited. I hadn’t done that in weeks. It felt like a long time. But wow — I didn’t expect it to be that challenging. I was working on a small feature: refactoring a top bar and customizing a greeting based on time (Good morning / Good evening, etc.). Simple, right? Yet Kotlin syntax didn’t come instantly. I had to pause on basic things — const, class declarations… stuff that used to be automatic. That was the first wall.…