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Yuchen Jin posted about moving from 15 years of manual tasks including syntax memorization and merge conflicts to prompting AI agents for code changes

Andrew Trask replied that the manual coding era stayed enjoyable

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OPYuchen Jin#427Yuchen Jin@YUCHENJ_UW

Can’t believe I coded by hand for 15 years. 15 years of memorizing syntax, Vim, Stack Overflow, broken builds, cursed dependencies, merge conflicts, and “one last bug before sleep.” All of that just to end up typing “fix this” into a chat box and watching an agent do crimes.

11:11 AM · May 23, 2026 View on X
REPLY⿻ Andrew Trask#361⿻ Andrew Trask@IAMTRASK

@Yuchenj_UW it was fun tho :)

Yuchen JinYuchen Jin@Yuchenj_UW

Can’t believe I coded by hand for 15 years. 15 years of memorizing syntax, Vim, Stack Overflow, broken builds, cursed dependencies, merge conflicts, and “one last bug before sleep.” All of that just to end up typing “fix this” into a chat box and watching an agent do crimes.

6:11 PM · May 23, 2026 · 206.2K Views
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