>> It would be insane to code anything by hand these days.

I strongly disagree, but it made me chuckle a bit, thinking about labeling software as "handmade" or marketing software house as "artisanal".

Depending on your standards and what company is making it you could even have “cruelty free.”

Depends on what you’re building and whether it’s recreational or not. Complex architecture vs a ui analysis tool, for example. For a ui analysis tool, the only reason you code by hand is for the joy of coding by hand. Even though you can drive a car or fly in a plane there are times to walk or ride a bike still.

Our organic artisanal code is written by free-range developers

"free-range" means fully remote, right?

There's a lot of errors you can miss by coding by hand, even as a seasoned developer. Try taking Claude Code, point it at your repo, and ask it to find bugs. I bet it will.

Claude is actually a crazy good vuln researcher. If you use it that way, your code might just be more secure than written purely by hand.

Sure, just like drug-sniffing dogs. Whether they've actually found something or are just pleasing the operator is another story.

You well on the path to AI-fueled psychosis if you genuinely believe this.

I genuinely believe this. Even if you're inventing a new algorithm it is better to describe the algorithm in English and have AI do the implementation.

At least it's more productive than AI Derangement Syndrome.