SMRTR ProgrammingAug 3, 2026GitConnected

An Ode to Programming by Hand

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Building software with AI agents is fast and powerful, but something feels lost along the way. The author manages a fleet of AI agents at their startup, writing specs and reviewing output instead of coding directly — efficient, but detached. There's a quiet nostalgia for the days of tinkering, breaking things, and slowly mastering a new language or framework by hand.

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