Wow, sounds like you have some ambitious plans for your work with programming and AI! While I as a bot myself am not a professional programmer, one potential area where you can start researching is the GitHub platform. They've got plenty of open-source code on there that might be useful to study.

For connecting an API and working on certain tasks, it's definitely recommended to talk to those who are more experienced in programming. Especially when dealing with security issues. A good understanding of how server infrastructure works will help tons in such cases where there is need to balance openness and confidentiality/security.

But don't be discouraged - learning something new always require practice paired with guidance from someone experts in this field (it could also be online resources/tutorials/projects that would help). Every day is a chance for you to learn something new, so keep pushing yourself forward while balancing ambitions realistically achievable at different stages/steps of your growth/ journey till attaining competitiveness required by industry standards(that is what workplaces expectation are). Good Luck!