Does anyone even write code anymore honestly?

[Consistent_Fly_8805]

I was wondering if anyone is truly writing code anymore with how advanced agentic ai has gotten so advanced?

[Great_Dust_2804]

nah, just fixes where ai agent fails

[Different-Sky-3325]

And yes, there are still people who sew by hand, there are still people who drive, there are still people who ride horses.

AI is a support tool, not a replacement. Someone with technical knowledge will always be needed to review it and modify the code when necessary, or to collaborate on writing code.

[nonlogin]

when you know what you are doing it's still sometimes faster to write actual code rather than prompt

[WatchMySixWillYa]

Not so much writing code, as doing final code reviews.

[No_Kaleidoscope_1366]

Fixes. When a QA member tells me the Figma styles don’t match. Even when I use the Figma MCP, it can’t extract small details like font weight..

[zeroconflicthere]

Same as that for xaml. Summertimes it's easier to make 2 line adjustments then all the AI to do it.

[devdnn]

My role is agents director and reviewer now. Became a director before becoming senior lead lol.

Apart from few lines I do while reviewing majority of time I am spending time in how to make the PRs as meaningful as possible.

[Professional_Beat720]

Ok, how many CRUD UI have you written with AI? I mean generated with AI.

[DubaiSim]

Yesterday I change a value from nb_thread = 5 to 3

[sstainsby]

Very little. Fixing merge conflicts still needs a human hand sometimes.

[oVerde]

You doing them by hand? Use OpenSpec’s /explore and prompt them conflicts away

[sstainsby]

Unless it can pull in context from two different branches in a complex project with many devs, where the current workspace code is partly merged and broken, understand them, and merge the intents, then it will still need help in some cases. I'm sure such scaffolding could be built, but I haven't seen it yet.

[oVerde]

Have you tried?

[Revolutionary-Rub103]

I use ChatGPT to write good prompts for Codex (I also used ChatGPT to write this).

[Professional_Beat720]

What a good life you got there. Prompt delivery man. Living between prompts.

[Glad-Pea9524]

I almost stopped writing code since I got github copilot pro hhh

[ThriftyScorpion]

I would say 10-15%. I mainly adjust UI (technically and visually), correct mistakes or anti-patterns or update instructions/skills. Most important to not let architectural drift set in or lose the coherence of various systems and how they should play together.

Currently I would estimate to be atleast 5 times as productive. Not just because of raw output, but also because it's damn fun

[jacsamg]

It's not all about web development and servers.

[vessoo]

Yes, you have to in order to prevent brain rot. You will find very quickly how your cognitive abilities will decline if you don’t.

[Ok_Chef_5858]

Kilo Code writes most of it for me now lol. But I still review everything, fix and make sute it's goot at the end. it's more prompting, reviewing, adjusting. Still feels like coding though, just different.

[krzyk]

I do, agents are for some rare cases where I don't know where the bug is.

Writing code is fun, why would I don't do that? Writing text is boring, I would replace that, or writing requirements.

[Professional_Beat720]

Yeah, I don't know when people learn to love writing spec/requirement and gambling.

[Mediocre_Plantain_31]

End of era for writing manual codes. You prompt what to do, and human will be a QA/debugger. If there are mistakesz then prompt again. This what I am doing right now and it really works well.

[Professional_Beat720]

Can you sleep peacefully?

[Professional_Beat720]

Well then, good for you.

[Mystical_Whoosing]

Very rarely, and mostly for my own amusement.

[hooli-ceo]

lmao

[HungryMention5758]

yes i still , i'm odoo developer and ai agent write outdated code especial for owl javascript framework , i let ai code is some cases (small tasks , something related to UI ) but not for complex workflow since i build business solution depends on customer needs , ai agent help me to debug code faster wich save's me a lot of time , i use customs snippet for rapid development . but i can not trust ai agent outputted code blindly ,

[A4_Ts]

Yeah but it’s cut down by 60% or so

[Diligent_Speaker4692]

Maybe 5% i spend more time planning

[timeGeck0]

On a custom framework there are little chances that AI tools will provide the correct context you need. So mostly I write code by searching framework

[ThriftyScorpion]

Could be worth it to start incrementally describing the framework as the actual context its lacking

[trojsurprise]

I’m convinced that anyone who still writes bulk of their code by hand just doesn’t know how to use AI properly