I Built 10 AI Applications in 5 Days as a Beginner — Here's What Actually Happened

Four days ago I was reading about what an API is. By day four I had a working RAG application running locally on my machine — one that could answer questions using documents I fed it, without sending anything to an external server. I'm still not sure how that happened. But I want to write it down before the feeling fades. Where this fits in the journey I'm midway through the IBM Applied AI Developer Professional Certificate. Courses 5 and 6 are where everything shifted — from understanding conce