Handwritten code may be becoming the exception？ DHH recently said 37signals is moving toward a workflow where writing code by hand is no longer the default. Agents handle more of the implementation, and manual coding becomes the fallback. That raises a more interesting question: if developers write less code, what becomes more important? 1. Steering the work. Breaking down the problem, giving the right context, and deciding what the agent should do next. 2. Reviewing the output. Generated code can work and still be messy, insecure, or hard to maintain. Someone still needs to understand what changed. 3. Staying close enough to learn. Writing code used to be part of how developers discovered edge cases and understood systems. If AI handles more of that middle step, developers need another way to keep that understanding. Maybe coding is not disappearing. But “being good at coding” may start to mean less about typing every line, and more about knowing what the code should do, whether it is good, and when the AI got it wrong.