r/programmer

Hi everyone,

I'm a full-stack developer, however, due to the rise of AI vibe coding, I'm not sure if coding by hand is worth the effort anymore.

I took a few months off after using AI, but I genuinely have a passion for coding. I am aware that AI isn't perfect and still requires human intervention.

My main question is, "Are you still dev'ing like before AI?"

Besides knowing your complete codebase and how your code functions, where do you feel the value lies in still writing code by hand?

Lastly, where do you see the value in continuing to progress and learn in 2026 and beyond?

Coding is an art, people who do it are artist.
But there is a concept about art that people tend to forget: there are competent creative geniuses that create new methods, and then there are talented artists that are good at replicating methods that others created.
Since I started learning about programming 6 years ago, the sentence people would always tell me was “google is your best friend”. How come? Why the core belief behind the programming community is that researching what other people have done is the way to be great? That would simply make you great at copying a piece of code, you’re not gonna create something new like this.
Everytime you watched a tutorial for doing something, everytime you googled an answer, you didn’t differ much from AI, as it does the same exact thing, just faster.

I am a mediocre programmer. The things I build don’t differ from the average software technology out there. For people like me AI is incredibly useful because it does what I would have done (which is searching on the net what others have done) and then used it in my project.
For people who engineer new types of software / algorithms / methods and whatever, perhaps AI in coding would sound worthless to them.
But unless you are those rare people, why discard the argument immediately?

I feel really stupid after the exact same answer I got from Apple reviewers on my last submission. Nothing new, as if I didn't change my app and didn't write 2000 character explanation and I didn't record a video of all the new implementations... I wish they said something if I missed a piece. I am really close to tell them off, but then I really need my app approved.

Has anyone else had the same experience?

It's been two weeks since I learn how to get the frames straight from the gpu as a direct 3D surface .

now I ran into the problem of how to compress this frame and send it via UDP server to officially compelete my streaming project.

I tried to scale the frame and then send it , it worked , but it looks super ugly and yet the process is not as fast as I want (it is a remote computer control, it must be a smooth picture in the end).

I used LZ4codec , believe me nothing reach up to my expectations 😔.

does any one have the optimal solution in which it will straight compress the frame to be less than 65kb so I can send it properly, and don't forget get to be ultra fast approation 🙂.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a project called GeoSpills — a website where discussions are pinned to real locations on a map instead of living in a regular feed.

The idea is simple: instead of scrolling through endless posts and guessing what’s relevant, you open the map and see what people are talking about around a specific place (or anywhere in the world).

👉 https://www.geospills.com

I’m looking for the first group of people to try it out and tell me what’s broken, confusing, or missing. Any feedback (even harsh) is welcome.
Would love to hear what you think.