How I Built an AI That Translates Code Between 27 Languages (Solo, No Budget)

Every developer has hit this wall. You have working code. It does exactly what you need. But it's in the wrong language. Maybe you're migrating a Python service to Go. Maybe a client needs a JavaScript utility rewritten in TypeScript. Maybe you inherited a PHP codebase and the whole team wants out. So you copy it into ChatGPT and ask it to translate. And it kind of works — until you look closer and realize the imports are wrong, the error handling is missing, and the output would never survive a