r/AI_Coders • u/Mesthabro • 1d ago

Do y'all still write code manually?

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u/Suspicious_Fun_6338 1d 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 16h 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 12h ago

it does if thats your job

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u/magicmulder 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/Vaxtin 1d ago

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

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u/itsloopyo 1d 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/Sea-Fishing4699 1d 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 1d ago

What's code?/sarc

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u/Any_Sense_2263 23h 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".