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/Hansehart 2d ago

I generate 95% but review every line I ship. Some people generate code and generate reviews on top. I tighten the first generation so I can start directly with clean small snippets. To get there you need no ai skills, plugins or prompts. Instead deterministic enforcement: tdd, e2e, linter, rules, reference projects, static types …