Just curious what the vibe check is these days.
When was the last time you wrote an actual meaningful line of code yourself by hand?
Anyone here not using LLMs at all? Curious to see the spectrum of answers and rationales here!
How many people still write code by hand?
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#2I do, not quite every single day.
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#3how many calculate numbers on pen and papers. Still
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#4how many calculate numbers on pen and papers. Still
I’m actually curious what the answer is to this too lol
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#5at all? i guess no one, but i think there's still a portion of people writing part of their code by hand, like libs, utils, classes etc that the agent can use directly instead the agent will generate their own piece from the scratch in order to protect maintainability
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#6I do, not quite every single day.
Amazing. What do you still code by hand and what do you leave to the LLMs now?
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#7Sometimes I do on leetcode type things to keep my skills but today on the job I have run out of my AI allotment and Im not sure what to do.
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#8Zero usage of LLM (assembly coding, and sometimes plain and simple C).
I cannot access them to test if they would be of any help in my coding use cases.
You tell me once we get some inference access with a web API with public tokens (probably severely rate limited), or with full interop on noscript/basic HTML.
I may have to run locally open weight coding frontier models (slooooooow).
Re: How many people still write code by hand?
#9at all? i guess no one, but i think there's still a portion of people writing part of their code by hand, like libs, utils, classes etc that the agent can use directly instead the agent will generate their own piece from the scratch in order to protect maintainability
Yeah that’s interesting - I feel like smaller chunks of work that aren’t inherently complex like class definitions and utils etc are actually one of the nicest things LLMs help automate - I can understand a human modifying the output directly to finesse it to exactly what they want but I’d be curious why someone wouldn’t want to use an LLM to generate all the boilerplate and make a quick first draft of something that gets 80-90% of the way there for these kinds of things.
Definitely curious if anyone is actually doing this fully by hand and if so, why!
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#10Sometimes I do on leetcode type things to keep my skills but today on the job I have run out of my AI allotment and Im not sure what to do.
Hahaha great point yeah that might be one of the few times people still need to code by hand