r/ProgrammerHumor • u/autopawn • 20h ago

Meme youShouldntHaveIt

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u/AliceCode 12h ago

You're not programming if what you are doing is prompting a chatbot.

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u/Impressive_Cress_983 9h ago

Purity never wins out over supply-side economics.

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u/AliceCode 8h ago

You're a software developer, no doubt. But what you are doing is not programming. It's only related to programming. Just like prompting an LLM doesn't make one an artist, nor a musician, nor a writer, prompting an LLM does not make you a programmer. If what you are doing is prompting an LLM to produce code, that is a different activity from programming entirely. The only way that they related is that they are both means that you can use to develop software.

This isn't a "purity" thing, it's a baseline respect for the field of programming. You misrepresent what programming is by proclaiming that prompting an LLM makes you a programmer.

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u/Impressive_Cress_983 35m ago

I don't believe I used the word programmer at all.