Comment by stackghost

>having written the code by hand means you don't need to rediscover it from scratch.

Hard disagree. If you're in a small-to-medium size codebase every day, then sure, but I have a couple personal projects that are complex enough that even though I wrote them before LLMs, I still need to go back and discover/fumble around before I can confidently make changes.

I have definitely looked at my own hand-written code and had a "wtf does this even do" moment.