Ask HN: Does it still make sense to write code by hand?
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Dear HN, I have a question: Does it still make sense to write code purely by hand?
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I'm referring more to an environment where you do it on your own terms, rather than on the terms of the employer.Secondly, I'm not talking about prompting "Build me the next twitter clone", but rather prompting very small tasks after you have made the initial design, something along the lines of "Create a database migration that adds column [x], not null", "add a field to the this form that will accept string value, validate it on the backend against this format, and save it to column [x]".
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I believe that writing something yourself helps you learn it better, but at the same time, if you did all the thinking and now just prompting for a fancy auto-complete, we could argue that the hardest part (the design) was already...
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