Rants like this are - entirely correct in describing frustration - reasonable in their conclusions with respect to how and when to work with contemporary tools

Rants like this are - entirely correct in describing frustration - reasonable in their conclusions with respect to how and when to work with contemporary tools - entirely incorrect in intuition about whether "writing by hand" is a viable path or career going forward Like it not, as a friend observed, we are N months away a world where most engineers never looks at source code; and the spectrum of reasons one would want to will inexorably narrow. It will never be zero. But people who haven't yet typed a word of code never will.