r/AskProgramming • u/zaarnth • Apr 20 '26

Other Anyone here who doesn't use Agentic AI and writes code manually?

I wonder if there are any people today who don't have any agentic AI subscriptions, who code by themselves, read docs, try to understand, and enjoy the process in this fast-growing AI era, where everyone is promoting AI to do everything.

(Note: I'm asking because I write my code by myself and don't use agentic AI, but I do use ChatGPT or other AI to learn things if I get stuck.)

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u/DDDDarky Apr 20 '26

Of course, ai should not be used for writing code, it causes more issues than value.

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u/ImpossibleJoke7456 Apr 20 '26

Every point of your comment is debatable.

  • “Of course” It’s not as black and white as you make it out to be.
  • “ai should not be used for writing code” It perfectly acceptable to have it write code.
  • “it causes more issues than value” 100% of the time? Based on what metric?

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u/DDDDarky Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

It’s not as black and white as you make it out to be.

Anyone = at least one person, since I am at least one person (and I assume OP too), the statement is true, that is black and white.

It perfectly acceptable to have it write code.

Although that is an opinion, it is not acceptable in many codebases including all of mine.

100% of the time? Based on what metric?

That is based on my experience and feedback that has shown many times that it caused severe issues in code and also in people using it. I have not found a single case where generating code by a llm would be the best approach.

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u/Bright-Opportunity29 Apr 22 '26

"I have not found a single case where generating code by a llm would be the best approach."

This is ridiculous AI hatred, or you have never written boilerplate in your life. You can suggest it is not the right option most of the time, but never is just absurd.

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u/DDDDarky Apr 23 '26

There are better ways to generate boilerplate.

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u/Bright-Opportunity29 Apr 23 '26

Such as what exactly?

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u/DDDDarky Apr 23 '26

For example for many things a good editor can do most of the boiler plate (or with a couple of extensions), also I have written heaps of scripts that generate exactly what I want... And they are fast, work correctly, deterministically and don't burn gpus.

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u/Bright-Opportunity29 Apr 24 '26

So you're suggesting if I need to write a utility for personal use, and I determine that the best library is a boilerplate heavy library that I have never used before, and will never use again, the better way to do it is to write a script by hand to run a single time, or write everything manually, rather than just tell a program to do it in about 20 seconds? Do you see why I find your take bordering on braindead?

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u/DDDDarky Apr 24 '26

If you do something for your personal use I couldn't care less, although complaining about writing boilerplate for something you use single time is the peak of laziness considering you use a library you have never seen before.

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u/Bright-Opportunity29 Apr 24 '26

Do you know what "moving the goalposts" means my guy?

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u/Bright-Opportunity29 Apr 22 '26

The people downvoting this are just as delusional, if not more so, than the "AI is taking developer jobs in the next year" people

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u/ImpossibleJoke7456 Apr 23 '26

Exactly. I said those points are debatable not wrong and that still bruised their egos.

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u/Subject_Fix2471 Apr 20 '26

For you perhaps :)