Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?

How so?

- Would you like to do that for a fun? - just do.

- Would you like to do that to encrease quality - build architecture manually and then ask AI to refine and code it, add more automation testing with help of AI.

Tell why you would like to do that, the answers can be different.

there was a link on HK to the article about building writebook (from the legacy laptop) i guess you need similar setup but for coding: simple editor eg vim, offline docs, that's it

but honest it's better to move forward and learn how to delivery value without hand-written code at all, seems it has more prospects

we never turn back time

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What helped me is to stop paying for AI subscriptions, as well as removing any AI editor from VSCode. It's rather hard at the beginning, but once you realize how much fun you've been missing all this time, it's easy to keep going. Of course, once in a while when I'm really stuck and I can ask ChatGPT for a hint, but only for learning purposes. I feel like not using AI at all is not a good idea because it's definitely not going anywhere. It might save some time occasionally for really boring stuff, but I think we shouldn't use it for more than 20% of our coding time. It only leads to deterioration of our cognitive abilites that we worked so hard to acquire. Good luck.