{"slug": "from-ai-doomer-to-handwriting-code-again", "title": "From AI doomer to handwriting code again", "summary": "The author reflects on how a personal crisis (being sick) led them to rediscover the joy of writing code manually, rather than relying on AI-driven development tools. They contrast this experience with their previous habit of wasting time on passive entertainment during illness. The article serves as a personal account of shifting from an \"AI doomer\" mindset back to hands-on, organic coding.", "body_md": "Let no good crisis go to waste\n-- Winston Churchill 1\nI’ve been thinking about the above quote lately. Normally this is applied in political contexts, but I think it does a good job describing the last couple of months for me. For example, today I’ve been sick as a dog (probably with that new covid variant). Normally I would be trying to speed things along by rotting my brain on YouTube or other pointless entertainment. While there was some of that, I was really surprised to find myself wanting to write some code for a project I’m working on! And this wasn’t Agentic Engineering™. I was enjoying writing good old-fashioned, organic, artisanal, free-range, handwritten code. I knew I had to summarize (at least for myself) how exactly I got here.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-ai-doomer-to-handwriting-code-again", "canonical_source": "https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/let_no_crisis_go_to_waste/", "published_at": "2026-03-29 14:53:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-20 17:08:02.227837+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Winston Churchill"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-ai-doomer-to-handwriting-code-again", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-ai-doomer-to-handwriting-code-again.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-ai-doomer-to-handwriting-code-again.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-ai-doomer-to-handwriting-code-again.jsonld"}}