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My AI assisted coding history It seems ages have passed by, but it was only 2020 when ChatGPT-3 was released. We developers and technology enthusiasts had been aware of it, but in November 2022 ChatGPT-3.5 was released to the mass market and rocked the world. This is the timeline: Year Model Impact 2018 GPT-1 Research prototype. 2019 GPT-2 Significant attention in the AI community, but not widely used by the public. 2020 GPT-3 Impressive capabilities, mostly accessed through APIs and developer tools. Nov 2022 ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) First version to become a global phenomenon. Mar 2023 GPT-4 Major quality improvement, building on ChatGPT’s already massive user base. At first I used it like many other developers, I assume. Just copy and paste from the browser or ChatGPT app to the IDE. This was fine for scripts or very localized problems, and that small assistance to my daily coding was enough for a couple of years, until I subscribed to GitHub Copilot in August 2025. ...

At my day job we use a dual database setup, a standard relational database and Elasticsearch when the volume of the stored data gets too big, and it does get big. I don’t feel at ease with Elasticsearch. First, I’m already a veteran. I graduated from computer science in 2002. Back then, when you got out of college you had your standard SELECT...FROM...JOIN...WHERE...GROUPBY...HAVING in the playbook but NoSQL was not something most people know about. In fact, according to Wikipedia the term NoSQL was popularized in the early 2000s, MongoDB launched its first version in 2009 and Elasticsearch in 2010. ...

Since its first edition in 2018, I have been attending Cooltural Fest, a music festival that takes place yearly in my hometown of Almería. I use the months before the festival to learn about new bands. The organization keeps an official Spotify Playlist that I don’t find very interesting since they, rightfully, emphasize the bigger bands and their most popular songs. Every year I copy all entries to my own list, trim most of the headliners’ content, and keep adding entries from the smaller artists. ...