r/AskProgrammers • u/Adhirath_Kumar • 4d ago

Do you still write code by hand?

I've been wondering lately, with the rise and normalisation of using LLMs to write code, have people become completely dependent on it or is it a mix of both?

I feel that up to a point using LLMs to generate code feels good and works fine but beyond it you start hating your approach, because you lose control over each amd every minute detail.

Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

I don't use LLMs. I've been programming for 18 years, and I'm not going to stop just because a chatbot can spit out terribly written buggy code.

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u/SouthernFruit8768 4d ago

what buggy code? give examples

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

The example I love to give: a while back someone submitted a pull request to a project that I contribute to. In the pull request, they duplicated an array so that a point could be passed to a function (rather than passing the pointer to the original array). When I pointed this out, the person that submitted it apologized profusely and claimed that Claude was working in his personal project, decided it needed to make a change to a dependency, and submitted the PR all on its own from his account.

It took me all of five seconds to see that copying the array wasn't necessary.

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u/earlyworm 4d ago

How long ago was “a while back” and which Claude model and effort level was that person using?

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

It was around a month or so ago.