It's generally possible to do almost anything in Keras without writing code per se: whether you're implementing a new type of GAN or the latest convnet architecture for image segmentation, you can usually stick to calling built-in methods. Because all built-in methods do extensive input validation checks, you will have little to no debugging to do. A Functional API model made entirely of built-in layers will work on first try -- if you can compile it, it will run.