2023-12

I've got copilot, it was a lol, I was hooked into the autocompletion.

2025-10

2 years of pretty much just on copilot, because it's free - i've somehow got free pro access, but i was mostly just on prompting and autocompletion, and I lost access right before my birthday 😢, but I liked the chat and autocompletion, so I just paid for a year.

From here I finally get the motivation to explore the rest, but still mostly just on chatgpt and stayed away from claude for no reason.

early 2026

Still on copilot, but finally got to start actually using it to do single file coding tasks (on gpt5.3-codex), still mostly in vscode chat tho

up till May 2026

Still on copilot, been already using 5.4 to do multi file task, but still limited to small work basically still haven't got the motivation and time to try a harness

2026-06

So there's this side gig that I constantly struggle to find time to work on - tried to hire a guy, and I say to the guy "feel free to use AI". After seeing the guy spitting out like 10 PRs in a night, I was fasinated. However after I reviewed the code, I was like "maybe I can do better than this". So in about 2 weeks, I decided to bump my OpenAI subscription to a Pro, and I decided to try to use it in my own toy project with a proper harnesses.

Mind is blown 🤯.

2026-07

Unfortunately the side gig guy decided to leave after like 2 weeks (maybe not enough tokens for this :P), and I'm kind of ready to give my own harness + workflow a spin,
Then the entire month was pretty much a bit of AI psychosis

Start planning and start actual work
At first I was on manual mode
Then just click approve
Then get annoyed and just go auto edit
Then still get annoyed and go full control
At first I was sitting there steering and looking every single script that it does
Then get annoyed and just let it run and commit and PR every stage
Then get annoyed and just let it run itself and open dozens of stack PRs
Then get annoyed by the quality and start to plan better
Then still get annoyed by the steering prompts and started editing AGENTS.md
Then get annoyed by how much word I have to explicitly write there then started looking for someone else's prompts (or in another word, "skills")
Limit hit
5x subscription 💰
Linked codex to phone, prompting in bed and at kid's party and everywhere
Immediately got wife complains
Constantly checking at time due to 5 hour session reset
Then realize even the 5x plan got maxed
Then started to try claude
Then fable
Then no fable
Then gpt 5.6 sol
Then 5 hour window is gone (on gpt)
Then burnt through the entire week of tokens in a weekend
Then finished the project milestone with the rest on claude
Got burnt out

2026-08

Decided to take 2 weeks break from it and played some BG3 and realized it is fine, and ask "do I even need to do that much that quickly" :trollface:
Deleted all phone clients

Now I think I'm a bit healthier with the tool and back to doing random things for fun, like migrating this site from nextjs SSG to astro, just because I feel like it.