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Comment by elAhmo | Hacker News Reader

It is amazing to see such a change in the industry: this title is something nearly every single developer could've said ~two years ago, now anyone claiming to code by hand is almost like an endangered species.

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It worries me that I’m losing my muscle memory, especially for the new technologies and programming languages I have been working with over the past year (as it’s suddenly so much easier to get shit done), and I feel like I’m creating a knowledge debt as I go.

I’m very concerned about how the next generation of software engineers will pick up deep knowledge about this stuff, if at all.

The bigger change is those that do write by hand have stopped open sourcing their work. The age of sharing innovation for free is quickly coming to an end.

I also expect a bunch of open source/open core projects to go closed source in the next few months.

YC startups still have to be open source though, right?

Where did you get that impression? Most aren’t

I was under the impression that YC startups need to be open source. My bad!

I'm not sure if that's the case. Of course one has always been able to copy or plagiarise open source code. The value of open source projects is that they continue to be maintained by people that understand the code base. LLM's lifting that code doesn't change that.

“Writing by hand” two years ago is analogous to writing without an IDE, which was rare.

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