My daughter asked if developers used to write code by hand, but it was the follow-up question that surprised me.

This is a blog post, not a tool. It is a narrative essay about a developer whose daughter has started building things with AI coding assistants, and the generational question that raises about what it means to write software. The framing is earnest and the observation is real — there is a genuine conversation happening in the industry about what floor-level coding skill looks like when the default is AI-assisted generation. As a piece of content it is fine. As something to ship or evaluate this week, it is not. The reason it shows up in a tool digest at all is probably the high engagement the post received, which reflects how much the topic resonates, not the presence of a product. If the underlying question interests you — what does teaching or hiring for programming look like in two years — it is worth reading. If you are looking for something to integrate or deploy, move on. -> Best for: technical PM or engineering lead thinking about hiring and skill frameworks