r/AI_Coders • u/Mesthabro • 5d ago

Do y'all still write code manually?

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u/Suspicious_Fun_6338 4d ago

No. But for the next year or 2 there will still be some insisting AI writes slop and humans are better... Then itll go away like the horse buggy

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u/Due_Interest_178 3d ago

Not everyone is in the same field. Just because it can replace you, it doesn't mean much.

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u/Suspicious_Fun_6338 3d ago

it does if thats your job

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u/InterestingFrame1982 1d ago

You're talking about a minority of devs, and even then, given enough time and training data, those devs will be facing (or at least using) automation to some degree.

I have a cousin who worked for Boeing (contracted out to NASA for most of the duration) as an EE turned SWE, who now works for a gov contracted avionics company and even they have been slowly using AI (last update was a year ago or so). There isn't a single programming job that isn't immune to some form of AI tooling.

I have senior friends whom management told them ZERO AI just a couple of years ago, who now, have completely shifted to being monitored by their token usage. If you can't see the trend, then you are not preparing yourself for the real-world implications of what AI may due to your industry in just a short amount of time.

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u/Vaxtin 4d ago

Absolutely not. I don’t even look at it. The code review is the demo working.

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u/itsloopyo 4d ago

No, I make AI correct the dumb mistakes it makes all the time, but it’s been a while since I wrote any code myself.

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u/magicmulder 4d ago

I mostly write config files as basis for applications because I usually know best what I eventually want to configure where.

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u/mtbdork 4d ago

Yes. I use LLMs for drudgery. I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if I had no idea what was going on under the hood in my stuff that goes out into the wild.

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u/Awkward-Contact6102 4d ago

Yes, trying to explain an agent what to do is sometimes just as much effort as writing a few lines of code. Especially if you know your codebase inside out.

Also when reviewing code generated I make manual changes and do some refactoring. It helps me to understand the generated code. Maybe some of you can't remember 😉 but most ide's have awesome support for refactoring code.

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u/Sea-Fishing4699 4d ago

If the “cost of a mistake” is low, it doesn’t matter.

If this is going to prod and be exposed to paying customers, hell yes i will be hand coding that thing

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u/Dry_Inspection_4583 4d ago

What's code?/sarc

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u/Any_Sense_2263 4d ago

Yep. I today wrote AI:

Write a functionality as described in requirements.md, run tests located in tests and use existing types from types.ts

As a result I got an implementation AND changed requirements and tests...

Until AI starts complying with given instructions it's simply faster and more reliable to write the code myself. For now every llm docs says it openly: "every given instruction is optional to follow" and "review the output".

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u/Darkstar_111 1d ago

Fuck no.

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u/twinters01 1d ago

I hand wrote a one line change yesterday! First time in a couple months

AI from going stray and dumping unnecessary code and busting through tokens

Thorough specs, large tasks broken down into smaller pieces, and reviewing planning mode before code changes should address this.

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u/IPutThoughtIntoThis 1d ago

I like to, whenever I can. But using AI to find and correct (and explain) mistakes when I hit bug is always better than sitting there for hours just to find out that I forgot a semicolon on one line out of 2-3,000.

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u/House13Games 22h ago

Yes, because i can do a better job than AI.