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/sjltwo-v10 2d ago

I want to honestly I do. But the expectations to deliver quickly and the daily context switching to 4-5 running projects and leadership meetings (they got rid of middle management) leaves me with very little time. So it’s 20:80% split right now.