[msm_]

>Are people on HN still typing out functions by hand one character at a time?

Well I use tab completion, of course. And I copy-paste snippets from LLM more often than from SO now. But otherwise not much has changed in my career in the last 5 years. Is this different for you?

I'm not fundamentally opposed to code generation, and I use LLMs for some taks, but I don't see myself vibecoding whole pages of production code. I vibecoded a throwaway note-taking app for myself though.

[chipsrafferty]

Yes. If you're copy posting code from LLMs you're in the minority of people who are "in the past". Most people are generating most of their code in ~1-200 LOC chunks, reviewing it, adjusting as needed (usually with another prompt) and then opening a PR, which gets reviewed both my LLM and other teammates.

[sensanaty]

Citations very much needed on the "most" here. I'm in a huge corpo with ~1500ish devs and the large majority of code is still very much handwritten, and we have access to all the AI tools imaginable (it's not forced on us because they treat us like professionals that will use the most appropriate tools to do the job, thankfully).

[latentsea]

Our whole team has transitioned to agentic engineering around the start of this year. We've been heavily investing in harness engineering to ensure final outputs are production quality and not slop.

These days it very much feels like the task has shifted from "building the system" to "building the system that builds the system".

It only looks to be trending one way.