yes, it was my mistake. I trusted him because he was my childhood friend and my cousin. He was a tech lead in CMMI Level 5 (serving fortune 500 firms) company at the time he joined with me. I had the trust that he will never ran away with the code and that trust is still there, also the entire feature, roadmap and vision was with me, so I thought code doesn't matter. It was a big learning for me.

That's a crazy story. That confrontation must have been a difficult one :/

Absolutely. But I never had any choice. It was Do or Die.

Input your roadmap into an llm of your choosing and see if you can create that code.

I can, but I switched to something more challenging. I handed over all things to him and told, Iam no more interested. I don't want him to feel that i cheated him by creating something he worked on.