Built a Whole Agent Stack From a Phone Without Knowing How to Code — and Feels Like a Fraud
NaoLiOsTermos · reddit · 2026-09-30
A Brazilian user's candid story: started with n8n automation, then learned VPS, Docker, Nginx and Cloudflare purely by interrogating AI, set up a root-access Hermes agent environment on a VPS, and shipped many working projects — some approved for the next phase of Sebrae's program. Everything was done on a phone via Termux (he even tore down and rebuilt his whole infra just to prove he could). Yet he knows no frontend, no backend, "almost nothing" — the results come out anyway, and the gap triggers intense impostor syndrome.
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