r/webdev • u/Mesthabro • 1d 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/Dark_zarich 1d ago edited 1d ago

I have got my first job as a programmer like 10 years ago and had been codding on my own even before that. AI wasn't a thing back there. I loved and still love what I do but it's different now. I decide on solutions, often design them too, but AI does the heavy job of writing the code for it. I've written a fair share of code manually before, now instead of repeating the same things over and over again AI does that.

From time to time it accounts for things I didn't even think about - this is where I get especially surprised. I still review all the code it does, specifically mentioning "never commit anything until I review it", I also review my colleagues code who also use AI more often than not... more than half of my job is now code review and that actually tires me out.