Dev ditches AI agents, hand-writes code for the first time in ages — and has fun again
gnukeith · x · 2026-09-05
Developer gnukeith shared that he hand-wrote code today without handing it to an agent or asking ChatGPT — just sat in the dark, thought for a few minutes, and wrote it himself, finding it genuinely fun. The post resonates with ongoing discussion about what's lost when AI coding tools become the default.
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