I Almost Lost Commerza: The Brutal Reality of Building an Ecommerce System Without a Framework

I am 19 years old. I set out to build a production-grade e-commerce system from scratch. No Laravel. No React. Just raw PHP, MySQL, and a lot of stubbornness. I call it Commerza . It is a security-first storefront and operations panel with 238 files of pure, custom architecture. But I almost killed the entire project before anyone even saw a single line of code. This is the story of how relying too much on AI almost wrecked my system, and how the rebuild forced me to become a real software engin