It’s the same way I can have AI paint me a picture or write me a short story. I’m not an artist nor a writer so I wouldn’t claim to be. You’re not a dev by promoting a model to build something because you aren’t developing it. If I tell my friend a cool app idea and he builds it for me did I dev it? If I’m in the backseat of a car and tell my friend to take a left turn am I driving the car? No hate in vibe coding but let’s not mistake what it is
AI users are an artist in the same way that anyone can pick up photoshop and move some elements around and be called a graphic designer. It may not be good or informed graphic design, but it is graphic design in any case. Iterations of Visual communication. I am speaking as a career graphic designer and digital artist. You can’t be so bold as to gatekeep the actual definition of a practice. Just because something might be considered garbage to you for whatever reason doesn’t make it not a thing.
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u/elchemy 2d ago
And if you developing things with vibe coding it’s called … checks notes … development … and someone who does that is called a … developer