There's a lot of errors you can miss by coding by hand, even as a seasoned developer. Try taking Claude Code, point it at your repo, and ask it to find bugs. I bet it will.

Claude is actually a crazy good vuln researcher. If you use it that way, your code might just be more secure than written purely by hand.

Depends on what you’re building and whether it’s recreational or not. Complex architecture vs a ui analysis tool, for example. For a ui analysis tool, the only reason you code by hand is for the joy of coding by hand. Even though you can drive a car or fly in a plane there are times to walk or ride a bike still.

Our organic artisanal code is written by free-range developers

Depending on your standards and what company is making it you could even have “cruelty free.”

I genuinely believe this. Even if you're inventing a new algorithm it is better to describe the algorithm in English and have AI do the implementation.

At least it's more productive than AI Derangement Syndrome.