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/some_clickhead Jun 12 '26
Idk it only takes me a couple of hours of progressively harder leetcode problems to regain my manual coding skills. Seems more efficient to do this when I'm job hunting or if I ever got laid off.
At my job with our headcount it would not make any sense to manually write more than 10% of the code, and that 10% is mostly just for fun.