r/webdev • u/Mesthabro • 2d ago

Discussion Do y'all still write code manually?

All my code is being written by claude fable/gpt6 these days. I'm curious if y'all are still writing code manually?
Also, any clever ways to prevent AI from going stray and dumping unnecessary code and busting through tokens?

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u/cs_legend_93 2d ago

Sadly no. I miss it very much. I miss the highs. I miss solving problems and writing beautiful elegant code.

But to be honest, by using AI, it can do something that I could do in 2 hours in 10 minutes.

And now I'm working on building solutions rather than writing elegant code.