Comment Hand coding (Score 2) 342
Hand coding will always have the upper hand for the competent.
Especially when incorporating new technologies and techniques.
Good code/system design, IDEs with syntax highlighting and other helper functions, build/verify tools (grunt/jslint/etc) and frameworks are the things that will accelerate developement.
Frameworks like jQuery UI will take care of different browser hacks like design tools can help with, for example.