HACKER Q&A
📣 jakemanger

Who here still codes without AI, and why?


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)