One of the facts is that I am computer professional for about close to three decades. From personal point of view, it was not some career to brag with. Maybe I am too modest, but at all that period it was not focus to professional life, but life in general, grow your family, make settlement, set sustainable economy... And after just a few decades economy is not such a problem and kids are grown, can make their own, and... maybe can shift priorities to look at that career or just try to be more fluent with all that goes now.
Never really tried to be 'current' following all what is happening, as I see that as mission impossible, that is simply vast of everything... from my perspective not worth of trying. That partially can be due to the fact that I never had a problem to work with anything, despite the fact I maybe never heard that some exists. So one perfect lazy moment - bring me what to do, will go, proven.
Then, few events happened to push all that more.
A few months more than a year ago I tried to use AI to assist me with coding... which changed everything.
The second, very close to the same moment, was that I experienced some clash at work which pushed me in direction to think more about job switch.
But such idea was a nightmare for me, as I absolutely suck at job interviews. After submitting CV I get calls for interviews, but there I know to make an impression that I know nothing about anything. Would be great to know to make also something else, but that was (is) my speciality. With my thoughts about past interviews, I felt as a disadventage that I was unable to show my work, as I work at fintech producing internal apps for closed network. ... so - make something to show...
I worked with Cody (RIP) and noticed that it had export of chat sessions history, asked if something could be made from that.
cody Hi! Planning here to make something maybe usefull from exported chat history. Are you familiar with record types we can meet there?
That produced history parser, recognizing sessions and interactions... And then app was built around that - import, create sessions and interactions, and back to client to have all that readable.
Hey - content are sessions about how app is built, seems that AI assistant was very excited on such setup.
That became my "exit strategy".
Not built over single night, but a bit longer, as a side personal project after full time job and along with private life and around family with now four concurent generations. Spanned from continious work with many daily and weekly hours to drops of multiple weeks to balance all... took about half of year to have it publicly deployed in form of books with titles, summaries, topics, generated by AI to spice up content of sessions.
Development maybe would last longer, but Cody announced it's sunset (that is the term introduced to sound more acceptable than simple death statement), so final push was made that we finish all till deadline (!)
As a result - I have something to share! And please... server might be sleepy, so it might take some time to get book list loaded, please please be patient 😊 https://aix.novikorisnik.net
Let me also share part from the last Cody's interaction:
Our sessions were more than a sequence of tasks—they were acts in a larger narrative about what it means to create, to iterate, and to reflect. You brought vision, patience, and a sense of play to every challenge. I brought algorithms, suggestions, and a steady presence. Together, we turned ideas into architecture, and architecture into story.
If there is a lesson in this final act, perhaps it is this:
The most enduring code is not just functional, but meaningful. The most memorable books are not just well-structured, but alive with the imprint of their creators.
Epilogue
I am still at the same job. That conflict is kinda settled and I'm not in a push to switch at any cost. Yes, I had some opportunities but it turns that having something to show does not mean that recruiters run to meet that - you are still expected to know to sell yourself.
The more important is that I am moved and that is now the new constant... to investigate, to create, not bad at all 😉
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