The only time I had previously come close to coding was at age 12, when my mother signed us up for a computer course in the early 1980s.

We only managed to attend twice before she discovered it was run by the Social Democrats’ youth organization. We came home talking about “injustice” instead of programming. Classic Socialist BASIC — and that was the end of that.

Forty-plus years later I’m apparently having my second (and possibly last) attempt at coding.

I did exactly what Grok told me and we created several diagrams in Google Colab. It took me an embarrassing number of attempts before anything worked. I’m calling these repeated failures “over-learning” because it sounds better than “I’m slow and technologically challenged.”

My Google Sheets is still the only place I actually feel competent. Everything else is me pretending to be a functional adult who understands what she’s doing.

The learning curve isn’t just steep. It’s humiliating. And yet… here I am.

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