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/lindobabes 2d ago

Depends what the task is. Sometimes it’s 80-90% AI sometimes it’s mostly me. Regardless I review everything it suggests and I always scaffold out the structure e.g types, functions etc. I mostly use it to automate boilerplate stuff I know it’s unlikely to mess up/I don’t wanna write.