I Did Everything the AI Era Asked. It Still Didn't Pay My Bills.

I didn't start because of AI. I was already building when it arrived. Then AI came and reframed everything. New tools. New possibilities. A new story about what the market would reward. I leaned in — harder than most, because I had more to prove. I have seven freeCodeCamp tutorials live. Not drafts. Not unpublished. Live. With real readers, real comments, real engagement. I built an SEO audit agent from scratch — Python, Browser Use, Playwright, the Claude API — evolved it through three versions