Writing Code by Hand Might Be Dead, but it Certainly Helps
That’s my answer to “is writing code dead?” as of 2026-09-24.
Great Tweet where I got the inspiration from
Personal observation: Writing code by hand is obsolete. But real coding experience correlates really well with being able to direct agents. In other words, non-technicals cannot successfully evolve AI-assisted systems. ^b26495
Linus Torvalds makes a
great case for using whatever tool you like, he will know from the commit if you used AI or not:
# Will It Replace X
I wrote more at Will AI Replace Human Thinking with Writers, Data Engineers, Programmers/Code and Image Generation.
# Further Reads
Origin:
Tweet based on this
video by DHH, The Differences between Writing and Coding
Category: Writing & Reading
References: AI Writing, If You Start Writing Today, There’s no way to Know if You Can Write without AI