The Rebuild Framework: A Learning Method for Developers

Every developer has stared at a messy codebase — AI-generated or otherwise — and thought "I could do this better." Most never do, because rebuilding feels overwhelming. Where do you start? How do you avoid copying the same mistakes? The answer is simpler than you think: you don't rebuild a project, you rebuild one endpoint. Then another. Then another. No grand architecture sessions, no perfect folder structure on day one — just a blank file, a single route, and the discipline to ship something u