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GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom

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CoffeeOnWrite ◴[23 Jun 25 21:11 UTC] No.44360164[source]▶
“Manual” has a negative connotation. If I understand the article correctly, they mean “human coding remains key”. It’s not clear to me the GitHub CEO actually used the word “manual”, that would surprise me. Is there another source on this that’s either more neutral or better at choosing accurate words? The last thing we need is to put down human coding as “manual”; human coders have a large toolbox of non-AI tools to automate their coding.

(Wow I sound triggered! sigh)

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vram22 ◴[23 Jun 25 21:43 UTC] No.44360468[source]▶
>Manual” has a negative connotation. If I understand the article correctly, they mean “human coding remains key”.

A man is a human.

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1. layer8 ◴[23 Jun 25 21:53 UTC] No.44360555[source]▶
Humanual coding? ;)

“Manual” comes from Latin manus, meaning “hand”: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manus. It literally means “by hand”.

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2. vram22 ◴[24 Jun 25 22:35 UTC] No.44371768[source]▶
Nice one :)

I too can sling a bit of Latin. ;)

Here is one phrase, in which one word, malus, is like an off-by-one error from your manus word, so to speak :) :

nemo malus nisi probetur

https://www.google.com/search?q=nemo+malus+nisi+probetur

From the AI overview (need to at least try that out a few times after all the talk about Google enshittification like by Cory Doctorow in this year's PyCon US keynote:

>Nemo malus nisi probetur" is a Latin legal maxim that translates to "No one is evil unless proven." It signifies that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. This principle is fundamental to legal systems that value fairness and due process, ensuring that accusations are substantiated before a person is considered culpable. Here's a breakdown of the phrase:

    Nemo: No one
    malus: Evil, bad, wicked
    nisi: Unless
    probetur: Is proven, is shown, is demonstrated
The maxim essentially means that one should not be treated as inherently bad or guilty without sufficient evidence. This principle is closely related to the concept of "presumption of innocence" and is crucial for upholding justice and protecting individual rights.