You're still allowed to program by hand. Even in assembly language if you like.

Imo, it's allowed theoretically, as a hobby, but not really as a practice. This is what the blog is about.

There are literally still programmers who make their living writing assembly code by hand for embedded systems.

> You're still allowed to program by hand.

In fact, you'll probably be more productive in the long term.

People are allowed to mourn the music styles of previous decades even though the same music genres are still being created, not just popular the same way they used to be.

I have an llm riding shotgun and I still very much program by hand. it's not one extreme or the other. whatever I copy from the llm has to be redone line by line anyways. I understand all of my code because I touch every line of it