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Often when you're calling something "manual" you're taking something off the automated happy path to tediously and slowly wind the thing through its complex pro
by jdiff 1y ago
Often when you're calling something "manual" you're taking something off the automated happy path to tediously and slowly wind the thing through its complex process by hand. The difference between manual coding and human coding is tedium and laboriousness. It's not laborious to program, but the phrase "manual coding" evokes that image.
- skydhash 1y agoMaybe that’s what they’ve been doing? No one using Vim, Emacs, or Unix as an IDE would say they do manual coding with the amount of automation that usually goes there.
- aeonik 1y agoIndeed, if your not using butterflies to program, it's not manual, and your not a real programmer https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/