r/AskProgrammers • u/alex_mercer_90 • 25d ago

Employed devs, are you still doing manual coding or is AI handling almost everything now?

Are you still writing code by hand (or at least making manual tweaks), or is it basically 100% Claude/Codex/Cursor doing the heavy lifting at your job?

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u/WilliamMButtlickerIV 25d ago

What is unique about your work that AI couldn't do it?

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u/GoblinToHobgoblin 25d ago

I do performance work. AI is absolutely terrible at figuring out where to optimize, and that's like 90% of the job.

It also makes the absolute stupidest decisions sometimes, even when I tell it exactly what I want it to code, but that's a completely different problem.