Typing out code is already the old way.

The other day, I stumbled upon this post titled, I'm Coding By Hand .

Its subtitle got my attention: "I'm spending 3 months coding the old way." Whaaat?!

The old way of coding

The future of coding is already here.

Decades ago, we punched cards.

For so long, we've been typing out symbols inside IDEs .

That's now "the old way."

Maybe the future is AI specs via brain implants. Who knows!

What you miss when coding with AI

The post made an excellent distinction between old coding vs AI-assisted coding.

"when writing code 'by hand' I was actually doing two things: writing what I wanted and learning the codebase...if I didn't know what I wanted exactly, coding agents would be happy to make many assumptions for me.…