@alexmarcy Nerd sniped me good today, so I made a Claude skill to help you kick start your Ignition module development. Not tested yet (I'll only do so much on the weekend!), but I welcome your feedback and PRs. GitHub - inductiveautomation/ignition-module-starter: A Claude Code skill and resources to help new module authors get started with module development. · GitHub
Definitely going to run through this manually (I'm a bit anti-AI as I want to learn how to do things on my own rather than have someone or something else do the work for me until I learn it) to try to grasp this. Came from a software development background/degree and haven't done much since my VB6 days, so I'm a bit rusty.
The hardest part will probably be coming up with a module to build that's not just some "hello world" example.
You can also do a hybrid approach -- instead of having Claude do it for you, ask Claude to explain to you what it would be doing in each step, and have it check over your work if you're stuck on something.
I get where you're coming from -- there's a lot of value in struggling with a concept. Making mistakes is the best learning tool! But some times you just want to get something done. 
Sounds like we have a similar background. I cut my teeth on VB6 and VBA apps using classic ADO.
I share your general feelings on AI but I feel like I could use this tool to get over the hump on getting a working example that I can use to learn how to make modules. Ultimately, I'm more interested in knowing how to put together all the components to build a module but it's good to have a tool like this to get a starting point.
One of my coworkers made a Perspective module and it took him a while to get started with the documentation he was able to find. Ultimately, this forum was very helpful for him.