Coding Is Thinking: Why I Still Write Code by Hand

Writing software isn’t just typing out code. It’s a deep mental process

You don’t develop those qualities by clicking buttons or feeding prompts into a chatbot. You develop them by doing the work

That’s not just a philosophical concern—it’s a practical one.

—that’s powerful

—that’s genuinely exciting

That kind of knowledge isn’t something you can download or prompt into existence. It’s earned over time.

it creates a dependency—not just on tools, but on outcomes we don’t fully control or understand.

Teaching people how to code is not just about building apps—it’s about teaching them how to think

Come on.

The vibes are strong with this one.

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. This is inane dreck is suitable only for the damned souls of LinkedIn, it does not belong here. The "author" of this drivel is advocating for the "craft" of programming -- fiercely clutching their pearls about the risks of outsourcing ones thinking to the machine -- while at the same time allowing a mountain of "It's not X it's Y" banalities to creep into whatever scintilla of original prose they might have written. This could have been ironically funny if there was even a hint of self-awareness as to what they were doing.