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> my experience from 5 years of coding with AI

What AI have you been using for 5 years of coding?

Github Copilot was available in 2021, believe it or not. It was just auto-complete plus a chat window, but it seemed like a big deal at the time.

This caught me by surprise. Wow time flies.

If auto-complete is AI coding then I've been doing it since 2001.

If AI can 10x then that's 50 years worth of development. Likely OP has developed a UNIX like operating system, is my guess.

And they have already retired.

I heard they created Plan10: An AI-files based Linux version.

Plan 10 from Latent Space

10x in personal branding position for sure. 5 years of AI usage by rounding up a 4 years-something, where the first 2 were really a glorified autocomplete and top 0.01% of something something.

Probably the original GitHub Copilot

It is only 4 years old

technical preview in June 2021. I was using it for a bit before that as an internal employee. so they may have rounded up slightly or also were an internal beta test

side note, I’ve been trying to remember when it launched internally if anybody knows. I feel like it was pre-COVID, but that’s a long timeline from internal use to public preview

Yes, the technical preview of Github Copilot. I rounded up.

fair enough! the jump from that to ChatGPT’s launch (which I didn’t find that interesting), to gpt-4, to Claude Code/Codex CLI, to Gemini 3/Opus 4.5/GPT 5.2 has been insane in such a short time. I’m excited (since the release of the Codex CLI especially: https://dkdc.dev/posts/modern-agentic-software-engineering/)

More importantly: what software of value have they produced in that time? I glanced around their site, just saw a bunch of teaching materials about Ai.

https://github.com/SilenNaihin

Keyboard autocomplete?

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