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.
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
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.