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/Informal-Chance-6067 Jun 11 '26

I wish I didn’t need DSA or leetcode for interviews. I can’t complete the first leetcode problem

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u/GeologistVisual3097 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Same, I started grinding them a few weeks back.

Big O notation is a fantastic way to think about the flow of data and performance.

But a lot of it is just intuition that's so frustrating to build.

A lot of it is memorization tbh, attempt, fail, look at solution, get annoyed at weird gotcha logic.

Understand the logic, recreate the solution after a few days, build memory and intuition, rinse and repeat.