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Comment on Ask HN: Does it still make sense to write code by hand?

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I write all production code by hand, it's the only way I'm sure I know what the code does. Moreover, when the problem space or code base is more complex, it is necessary to keep in touch with reality and test your understanding by writing the code.

I see colleagues using LLMs more and more, and the number of bugs found by QA is increasing dramatically, because the LLM was not thorough enough and the developer (now reviewer I guess) missed the edge cases too because the code, tests and comments looked convincing.

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