Starting Fresh: Three Years of Watching AI Change Everything

I regret not writing any of this down sooner. When I first encountered generative AI in December 2022, I had no idea how much it would shape the next few years of my life. The trial and error, the shifting opinions, the tools I loved and then watched disappear — none of it was documented. This blog is my attempt to fix that. The Day I Met AI My introduction to generative AI came through my father, who explained ChatGPT to me back in 2022. What felt like yesterday is now more than three years ago