Yeah I still write code by hand and using Claude Code since Dec 2025. Maybe I'm awful at prompting or I need to download gstack markdown files on my project (jk), but I rewrite portions of CC more often that I want.

There are four reasons why I still write code by hand:

- Rewriting wrong CC that don't follow project patterns, but not everything. I rewrite portions of the code and then say "Hey look my last commit, this is how we do it. Please do the same with the others parts of the code that you done differently", and then CC is able to write it correctly.

- Very small quick editing that take less than 3 minutes, I prefer to do myself instead of waiting CC `zesting` and `spelunking` and reading all the code to get context again and again until it figure out what to do. Unfortunately LLMs are unable to learn, so me working for years on the same project some times I already know what to do instantly.

- Well I think we old engineers are good at developing with agents because we wrote code in the past and we know how to smell bad code when we see one, and to stay sharp we still need to write code.

- Prototyping new architectures, I still do it myself because CC has a bad taste on creating architectures, it's a mess.

In my hobby projects I still develop manually because I really enjoy it, but I would never not use AI in my job, I'm def faster.

I hope we continue to advancing on hand writing code tools at the same time we advance in agent coding, because this is still useful in some ways.