I felt the familiar feeling of depression and lethargy creep in while my eyes darted from watching claude-code work and my phone. “What’s the point of it all?” I thought, LLMs can generate decent-ish and correct-ish looking code while I have more time to do what? doomscroll? This was the third time I gave claude-code a try. I felt the same feelings every single time and ended up deleting claude-code after 2-3 weeks, and whaddyouknow?
Reading only the headline: “why would you write code by hand? Would your fingers cramp up? How are you going to test it?”
Reading the article: “Oooohhhh.”
@W3dd1e @codeinabox For what it’s worth, a lot of pretty famous programmers did/do write code by hand. They often have an assistant of some kind do the actual typing after it’s done. It can be an interesting experience.
in undergrad we’d joke that, if you make a paper ball and hit the basket, it compiles.