From HTML to 2M Lines of Code in 8 Months

I built my first HTML page in August 2025. Eight months later, I have shipped over 2 million lines of production code across 48 repositories with 35 live deployments. I know how that sounds. Let me explain how it actually happened.

I am Ethan Daley. I started my company, TNAADO Inc., when I was 18 years old in Toronto. The business was Amazon seller account management, warehousing, white-label brands. Real operations, real logistics, real money moving. I was always tech savvy, always the person people came to when something needed to be figured out. But I was never in a position where my limited technical knowledge could actually do anything meaningful for what I was building.

That changed in August 2025 when I sat down and learned how to make a basic HTML site. Nothing impressive. Just a page. But it opened a door I did not know was there.

I started using AI-assisted building tools. Bolt, Base44, Claude. I was hooked immediately. Not because it was easy, but because for the first time, the speed of my thinking could actually match the speed of my output. I went from those early tools to learning the Claude API, Workbench, and how to create effective context systems. Within weeks I had built custom API pipelines that were basically a micro version of Claude Code before Claude Code even existed as a product. When Anthropic actually launched Claude Code, my workflows went to a completely different level.

I have ADHD. On any given day I have somewhere between 5 and 20 terminals running, multiple VS Code projects open at the same time. Most people would look at my screen and think it is chaos. It is chaos. But it is my chaos, and it is where I perform best. My prime state is when I am actively overwhelmed and locked in on three or more projects at once.

AI tools enabled something I did not expect. They matched my speed. They let me mass produce at a pace that creates this reliable flow of intuition, intellect, and habitual execution. Some people call what I do vibe coding. Just because I am not manually writing every line from scratch does not mean there is no ingenuity behind it. The strategy, the architecture decisions, the debugging, the system design, that is all real work.

Learning at this speed is tolling. I struggle with burnout. There are weeks where I push too hard and pay for it. But I have learned my cycles. I know when to go hard and when to step back.

The numbers speak for themselves. Over 2 million lines of production code since August 2025. 48 repos. 35 live deployments. 12 or more startup equity positions. I am now deep in applied AI research, working on next-gen compute hardware and neuromorphic systems architecture.

The future is scary. Genuinely. But that is what makes it exciting. The bigger the dream, the more it feels like it was meant to be achieved.

This is my first journal post. There will be more.