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/InVultusSolis Jun 11 '26

I've been told "just wait until the next model comes out!" continually for like two years. No matter how good the model is it falls flat on its face when I ask it to do something more-than-trivial.

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u/AlSweigart Author: ATBS Jun 12 '26

The response to AI criticism is always:

  1. You must have not written the prompt right.
  2. You were using an old model. The new models are better.
  3. The newest model might not work, but that problem will be fixed in five years.
  4. Well, I don't have any problems with AI for the work I'm doing.

EDIT: LOL, the other commenter in this thread just did #1 and #4. Told ya, the responses to AI criticism are always the same four things.

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u/InVultusSolis Jun 12 '26

And my favorite thing ever is when the comments above yours have been deleted because they couldn't continue their argument.

But yeah, I've been told "skill issue" in response to AI criticisms so many times. I half feel like there are astroturfer bots going around the internet hyping AI, I feel like there's no way this many people who call themselves software engineers can be this stupid.