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Comment by neuroticnews25 | original | No AI Fridays
[−]neuroticnews25 · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:35 UTC · link
>write code with your own hands

How is this supposed to work? Like emulate an agent with my brain and write down the output?

[−]xendo · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:38 UTC · link
Just look at the keyboard and sort all characters by how probable you think they are next, type one and start from the beginning.
[−]cj · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:41 UTC · link
And what am I supposed to do when I hit a wall solving a problem? Just sleep on it?

Sarcasm aside, I think there's a real phenomenon of AI removing the experience of getting stuck on a problem (where often I'll wake up the next day with a perfect solution in my head ready to implement). The same way social media removed the experience of "being bored".

[−]wonnage · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:49 UTC · link
Do not recommend. There’s this stupid hard limit every day which takes like 8 hours to reset no matter how many tokens you used
[−]avian · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:54 UTC · link
It is provably impossible to write code manually.

It takes an agent on the order of 100 billion operations to produce a single token. A person (generously) taking just a second for a single mental addition or multiplication would take tens of thousands of years to write just a single line of code.