The tutorial trap is real: 6 months in and I still can't build anything without a guide

I've been grinding through coding tutorials since January, around 15 courses total, and I finally hit a wall last week. Every time I sit down to build my own project, I freeze up and open a YouTube video for the same thing I just watched. The issue is that tutorials hand you the roadmap, and your brain never learns how to plan the route itself. I realized this when my buddy asked me to make a simple contact form for his landscaping site and I stared at a blank VS Code window for 2 hours. It took me another 2 days of digging through Stack Overflow and old forum posts just to fake my way through it. Has anyone else hit this same wall, and what did you do to break out of the tutorial loop?

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dianagreen1mo ago

Is it really that deep though? Everyone stares at a blank screen sometimes, even after years of this stuff. You got it done in two days, so maybe the loop already broke itself.