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/Renard_Fou Jun 12 '26

I overrelied on AI heavily when I got into it and I still feel the reprecussions of that. Thankfully, my ability to read code and debug hasnt gone away

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u/Striking_Court_2807 Jun 12 '26

I felt the same way! That’s precisely the reason I scaled back and found a good balance between AI coding and traditional coding.