You are using "coding" as a magic word. Stop that. My first job was writing machine language without an Assembler, man. THAT'S coding. Then I used an Assembler

You are using "coding" as a magic word. Stop that. My first job was writing machine language without an Assembler, man. THAT'S coding. Then I used an Assembler and the code was written for me, all I had to do was specify it in a language called "6502 Assembly." Then I moved on to C, and the Assembly code was written FOR ME by an amazing thing called a COMPILER. Then I moved on again. The meaning of "coding" is simply the act of precisely specifying what you want the computer to do, at some level of abstraction. GPT-4 is not "writing code" in the same sense that a human does. It is an automaton performing an elaborate algorithm. Functionally, it's doing what a compiler does, just at a different level of abstraction. In order to address my argument, you will have to understand the social role of a programmer in a human system. That's the crux of the matter, not arranging text in a file.