A thought experiment against 'real engineers hand-write code': what about the engineer born without hands?
brandon_galang · x · 2026-10-04
brandongalang offers a thought experiment: if you believe engineers must hand-write code to truly understand how things work, what do you say to an engineer who lost his hands at birth but can still generate working code and drive agentic systems with his voice?
The jab cuts at a live debate: does understanding come from the act of typing, or from design and reasoning? A worthwhile prompt for thinking about what engineering skill means in the AI-coding era.
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