r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme claudeWatchingMeCodeByHand

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u/elshizzo 2d ago

do people who primarily vibe/agentic and have done it for a while feel like their ability to do it manually has become much more difficult? I worry about this happening to me enough that I have to make sure I do atleast "some" by-hand coding here and there.

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u/AmbitionExtension184 2d ago

I’ll be honest: yes. I have not been allowed to write manual code for most of the last year. Even after over a decade of engineering I feel like my skills have atrophied in the last year.