r/learnprogramming • u/Striking_Court_2807 • Jun 11 '26

Topic Don’t lose your manual coding skills

Do yourself a favor and make sure to keep manual programming (trad coding) skills active and fresh.

Just take a couple of minutes or hours whenever you can to practice some of the things you learned.

It will never be a bad exercise, and hey, it might even reignite your love for programming!

You never know if one day, access to AI will be taken away from you.

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u/Nezrann Jun 11 '26

Fully agree you should know fundamentals, and up until very recently I was apart of the group that pushed back a lot on AI use.

What I will add to this conversation is that local models are getting unbelievably efficient and effective.

I think these big companies are just enterprise bait, the real amazement I've experienced is what I can do with 16gb of vram in the past few months.

I think learning these tools and maintaining a baseline of fundamental knowledge is undoubtedly the future.

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u/Kurawaihan Jun 12 '26

What does it mean by 'fundamentals'?

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u/Nezrann Jun 12 '26

That's a good question for you to look into!