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I mean, you're free to not "outsource your thinking". If you actually believe that fiddling with the code by hand is essential, just spend 5 minutes giving a prompt and 55 minutes working by hand. Boom, you're as efficient as 2 programmers were before AI, and you only had to "miss out on" 1/12th of the learning.

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That's great for everyone who isn't the author of the post:

> A year ago leadership told us everything goes through agents now. Hand written code needed a reason

I can't imagine needing to ask for permission or having to justify myself every time I personally wrote code. That definitely sounds like hell

Ironically the author of the original post is probably a LLM reddit spam bot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50434474

But in any case, in that hypothetical scenario, just automate your day job and spend time coding a side project you're passionate about. You might have to spend 10 minutes out of every hour prompting, but hey, that's still 400 minutes a day for your side project of choice.

im sure your take applies to the majority of men who label themselves programmers

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