History of using AI tools for development

Enkonix started using ChatGPT back in 2023 and developers were pasting prompts there, asking it to help with code, and then copying the result back into the project. It was already useful, but of course it was a very manual workflow: the developer had to explain the context, copy code fragments, copy the answer back, test it, and then repeat the cycle.

In Summer 2024 we automated a big part of that workflow with Cursor and then Cursor Composer. It gave us a better developer experience because AI could work closer to the repository and the actual files.

We used Cursor for some time, learned a lot from it, and then in March 2025 we started moving our development to Claude Code, starting from our internal projects and then expanding it to all of our customers. Claude Code works better for our current process because it fits more naturally into how developers work with the codebase, Git, planning, and step-by-step implementation.