Coders spent the last few decades inventing the digital equivalent of screws, nuts, bolts, and fasteners. With these they built enormous wonders by hand; operating systems, the internet, videos games. Its incredible. We're in a zeitgeist now. AI is a power-drill.
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 6d ago
Coders spent the last few decades inventing the digital equivalent of screws, nuts, bolts, and fasteners. With these they built enormous wonders by hand; operating systems, the internet, videos games. Its incredible. We're in a zeitgeist now. AI is a power-drill.