Ask HN: Who here still codes without AI, and why?

[jakemanger]

As someone who loves coding (uses vim, and has done so for ~10 years),

but also is amazed by AI coding tools and has embraced them recently (e.g. copilot then claude code then codex),

I'm curious, who out there is still not using any of these tools? And if not, why?

I feel it's become as common-place as autocomplete, or intellisense. Though I remember people used to hate those too.

I guess AI is like the modern day intellisense + docs targeted for exactly what you're doing, always (maybe that + an intern that never sleeps)

[bearead]

I also prefer to code using vim, but I don't code with AI. Mostly because it's too "complicated" for me so I literally don't know how to do AI coding or vibe coding. I know something about transformer and language models (the object of my thesis is about language models) but I just couldn't put in the effort to figure out how to do that.