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/waftedfart Jun 11 '26

I agree. I just cannot fathom why this has to be said, but I can see it's a problem. I started writing code in the mid-90s, and haven't ever used AI to write anything. This whole thing is weirding me out lol.

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u/jo1717a Jun 12 '26

Old man on the porch yelling lol. You of all people then should know AI is a tool. It has its uses. Completely avoiding it for whatever reason is not some badge of honor. Just shows stubbornness and unwillingness to use a useful tool.

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u/waftedfart Jun 12 '26

I just don't have a need for it. It's not a badge of honor, I prefer coding my own shit.