I can’t tell if you might be joking. If you are, the rest of this comment is irrelevant.

That general idiom is old and fairly widely used. There was a Seinfeld episode in 1997 in which Elaine talked about “…not lurching around like a caveman.”

If you’re objecting to criticism of writing code by hand, the phrase is almost invariably used in a self-deprecating way, acknowledging some inefficiency or old-fashioned behavior with comic hyperbole. It’s not criticizing people who write code by hand as such - the author is criticizing themselves for doing something the hard way.

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kunley 2 days ago | parent [-]

Thank you. Seinfeld reference does it.

About the "hard way", everything in the article is screaming that OP's new way of coding is the hard way, not the other way around

	▲	antonvs 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Isn’t it just the Gemini key aspect that’s hard? That’s not specific to this way of coding, just to Google’s half-baked mish-mash of offerings. He should have used OpenAI or Anthropic - instead of using Google, like a Neanderthal.
	▲	gilrain 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You came in hot with a wrong assumption couched in absolute terms… and, after correction, you’re flouncing out with the same irrelevent message. I’m an AI skeptic, but this ain’t it.