It's pencils down, people. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies. But the future of making software has never been brighter. Don't you dare black pill this beautiful moment!
- It's pencils down, people. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies. But the future of making software has never been brighter. Don't you dare black pill this beautiful moment!
I’m 46. I’ve been writing code since I was 8 years old. I’ve written essentially no new code manually, beyond very minor tweaks, in 6 months.
Personal observation: Writing code by hand is obsolete. But real coding experience correlates really well with being able to direct agents. In other words, non-technicals cannot successfully evolve AI-assisted systems.
If writing code by hand is over, why would anyone want to use Ruby and Rails in the future? Wasn't the whole thing about making it easy and beautiful for humans to develop and maintain code? If agents write my code, I'd rather pick something that has way better performance, like