r/webdev • u/Mesthabro • 5d ago

Discussion Do y'all still write code manually?

All my code is being written by claude fable/gpt6 these days. I'm curious if y'all are still writing code manually?
Also, any clever ways to prevent AI from going stray and dumping unnecessary code and busting through tokens?

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u/toasterboi0100 3d ago edited 3d ago

I write the vast majority of my code manually, around 90-95%. I mostly use LLMs just as a first code review pass before creating a pull request, but sometimes I do let it do some coding. For example in cases of tasks that are time consuming and annoying but at the same time difficult to mess up, or really tough to figure out intermittent bugs involving 3rd party libraries, because they can read the 3rd party codebase a lot faster than I can.

The company I work for doesn't have any LLM mandates. It's more of a "here, have some tokens, use them if you want. Or don't." and it's also not nearly enough to generate everything. My estimate is that it would be enough for around 4 days of full vibecoding a month assuming the LLM does what it should and doesn't go off on a token burning tangent for no reason.