# The Traditional Coding Era in the Age of AI

You're Persisting in Hand-Coded Programming—Ironically, It's Differentiation 👏 🤡

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A statistical survey was conducted in the group chat:
- When was the last time you did traditional hand-coded programming?

Group member: A very long time ago, so long I can't remember. But I still need to review the code and provide Claude with direction and logic—it feels like pair programming, except I'm not writing a single line myself.

In the short term, traditional hand-coded programming is indeed depreciating in value. In the medium term, it will diverge. In the long term, it will become a "literacy" rather than a "skill."

- Will traditional hand-coded programming still exist in the future?

Group member: Of course it will. Skills have no inherent value—value is determined by supply and demand.

It's like how today you don't need to be able to manually calculate calculus to be an engineer, but understanding calculus principles lets you verify whether the calculator's result is correct.

Creativity will always matter.

Quartz watches are more accurate, but Patek Philippe is more expensive.