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 typical 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
• Then get annoyed and just let it run
• Then get annoyed by the quality and started 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 skills (someone else's prompts)
• Limit hit
• 5x subscription 💰
• Linked codex to phone, prompting in bed and at kid's party and everywhere
• 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
• 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 play some BG3 and realized it is fine, and ask "do I even need to do that much that quickly" :trollface:
• Deleted the 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.