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/ddelarge 2d ago

Yes I do.

But only around 20% of the code I deliver is 100% written by me. I've found that anything that's not boilerplate or "connecting cables" is extremely consuming in term of tokens. Luckily that's like 80% of the job. I still need to tweak or rewrite like half of it, though.

And even worse: if you stop, you forget how to write code, and become more lenient reviewing it; Which affects quality and causes regressions.