There's so much context to tell you how I came to this exact moment, writing the article, about me, on this website I developed. It's crazy to think how far I've gotten, and I don't even know where I'd be in the future. I've relearned that I like coding, more like creating. I'm such a creator, I really like turning ideas into something you can taste, see, touch, smell and hear. Well you might ask, what do you mean taste? I like cooking and my time at Virginia Tech has made me realize that I have to learn how to cook, really. I've done so much progress and more comfortable cooking.
Touch? Smell? Hear? Well, you can see my apps, interact with them, you can hear me brainstorm ideas in real time, or hear me play guitar to songs I love singing and playing. American Cars by Noah Kahan is currently my favorate song, but I also like other songs as well. So lets get back on track and see how I became more efficient from turning ideas into actual things someone can use. But really, I have like way too many hobbies, so you can basically see me do anything.
Start of University
August 18th, 2025. The day I finally left to see what actual college life was. I'm not saying community college wasn't a real experience, but rather an experience away from home. I'd be living by myself and roommates for the first time. I basically started fresh, leaving my friends behind and creating new friends. Of course I already had a few friends at Tech, so it wasn't hard to start hanging out with previous friends from high school and other friends I made at community college.
At first, I didn't code, well, how did you get there? Well, you've asked the right question. To summarize everything into a not so long article about everything but coding, I'll let you know that I get distracted easily so I can go blah blah blah for a while. Anyways, lets jump some time to the actual time I'm coding.
Coming up with an idea
While working a summer job, I had so many thoughts of what I can do. At first, I didn't really think of a project, just the brainstorming of an idea for me to get started with. After many weeks of thinking, I narrowed my thinking into more finance heavy, and what do I like doing? I really really enjoy personal finance, so I thought of a personal finance app, but what would be different, my striking niche? So I drafted an idea into Google's Gemini, and I just said "what is a finance startup?". Then I didn't really do much after a few more queries.
I was back to square one. I quickly and rapidly over the coming days about how to start a business, what business I should get into, and the personal finance app really stuck by me. Then I had an idea, I went on Antropic's Claude because my friends who were Computer Science majors, and typed into an temporary chat, a prompt saying make a mockup of what a personal finance app for students would be. Although the actual prompt and its generated content is now gone, it gave me one file, HTML and CSS. I downloaded the file and I was amazed at what it looked.
It was so magnificient, I watch a lot of personal finance youtubers, and I asked if that would be a cool idea, and it showed me how it would look like if it were fully developed. I really liked it and later forgot about it. A few days later, and as I'm coming back home from work, and the 2026 Fifa World Cup on its way, I came home to my parents watching the Ecuador vs Curaçao match, and I sat on the couch, and brought my computer.
2026 Fifa World Cup
So as I went and sat on the couch, while using my computer, I suddenly remembered about the website, so I asked Gemini to expand the mockup to 5 pages. I called it "StartupMockup", so with that, I had 5 functioning pages of a website to be named. I really liked the output and I kept adding more on top of it, Penny was born. I quickly expanded it into a 1 python app, a few html files and a css for nice visuals. I showed my parents about my idea and showed them the small website I created. They were impressed, but kept watching the game.
Then a thought came in, what if I keep continuing to build the website? Maybe I can do something about it, and if nothing happens, I can just add it to my resume and call it a day. I quickly put most of my time coding and coding while working and watching the games. After a few weeks, I had grown the website to be more than I thought. As time went on, I changed the name to what is now "Amveric", and kept coding. Now it was time for me to go to summer class, so I moved and kept coding. But there was a problem.
Limits, I realized that I quickly hit the limits to my Gemini AI, and that I had to manage it. At this point, I'm still copy and pasting, and me physically adding features in myself on VS Code, the files were simply getting too large, I mean a few hundred lines at least, and I saw that my app.py had it around 1000 lines of code. I was like there's no way I can reliabily code this website as-is right. So I showed my friend about my website, how I'm doing it and what I've grown so far.
I'm no computer science major, so I didn't fully know what vibecoding really was and all of that. So I asked him how he does it, and he laughed at me saying theres no way you're just copy and pasting it, and how my so called "vibe coding" was terribly inefficient. I asked him "What do you mean?" and he explained how instead of going on the web version of AI, you can downlaod a local terminal so that it has all the context without you having to put all the files in. So he offered how to download VS Code extentions, and how thats how he does it.
Here's the problem, Google discontinued its VS Code extention the prior week and that he said that it was unfortunite. I asked him what he uses, and he said that Open AI's Codex was a lot better and aimed towards developers like himself, so the following day I researched it and now it's called Antigravity, so I used it and was quickly amazed of how useful it was a miles better, so I kept coding and coding. But, I quickly hit the quota again, so I waited for it to come again.
Using multiple AI's and Agents
So I had a problem, I used so much tokens that I was softlocked out of Antigravity (Gemini) for the next week since I used so much tokens, I mean I did grow the website exponentially. So I reluctantly bought Codex with the Plus plan. Although I was a bit hesitant at first, it worked just as well as Gemini, so this is getting more up to date, and not long ago. Because I didn't really trust it at first, I gave it its first task, creating a personal website, so it did.
I quickly built it and I realized that I can use multiple chats and agents to do work simultaneously and more efficient. Then my codex usage hit the limit for the week, luckily Gemini's softlock was expired, so I now am working on both this website and Amveric. Altough I'm having a bit of a problem hosting Amveric because it's sitting on another framework, it's functional on my Mac.
Closing thoughts
So hopefully you've learned about what I'm doing, and how I came to be where I'm at, and I'm grateful that I'm sharing this time with you on this exact website.