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by kshahkshah 97 days ago
Are you hand coding?
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Are we that far gone that "hand coding" is a term now? I hope there's an /s missing
I hope "hand coding" is an antonym for "convention coding" or something.
I’m guessing hand coding means, not vibe coding.

Did you use AI? .. Nah I hand coded it.

Well, yes. I was trying to comment in spirit of parent comment.
Real programmers use butterflies. https://xkcd.com/378/
Doesn't matter because LLMs also benefit greatly from typed code bases in that they can run the type checker and fix the problems themselves on a loop.
I haven’t seen much discussion about this point other than “llm handle languages x y and z because there’s a lot of training data”. Watching Terence Tau using llm for writing proofs in Lean was a real eye opener in this regard.
Both Claude and Codex handle Ruby just fine.