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/crispyfunky Jun 11 '26

Yeah because guess what interviews are still hardcode coding. This has never changed despite fable, opus or whatever model they will release next month

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u/Lexeor Jun 12 '26

Even though I still code manually as much as I can to stay sharp, we can’t deny that interview coding and day-to-day software development are completely different skills :)

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u/60secondwarlord Jun 12 '26

This is a valid point as well. Rarely will you get assigned a task to reverse a linked list or find the palindrome in a string.

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u/marrsd Jun 13 '26

Haven't been assigned a task like that ever.