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I Have No Idea What Iโ€™m Doing, But Iโ€™m Having Fun ๐Ÿ‘‹

Hey DEV! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Iโ€™m Preet, a Computer Engineering student from Nagpur, India. I write code, break code, Google the error, fix the code, and then somehow break something completely unrelated. So yeah, Iโ€™d say Iโ€™m learning. ๐Ÿ˜‚ Currently exploring web development, AI/ML, Python, React, and cloud, mostly by building random ideas and seeing how far I can take them. I joined DEV because I want to learnโ€ฆ

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