Ask HN: Can I still code by hand?

Lately however, work has started feeling duller than before. Whenever I'm digging through a deep problem by manually inspecting a stack trace or writing a piece of code by hand I'm overwhelmed with: "I should be doing this differently".

And whenever I do it the agentic way I find myself having to re-read a lot of things to understand the changes.

I was happier when I could just write it myself without thinking about token subscriptions. I liked writing code.

Can I still code myself at least a bit? Or should I try to move on?

Instead of letting the agent do it for you, you can prompt it to describe it and let you do the job.