If you hire an architect to design a house, then make some adjustments to the blueprint before it gets built, it doesn't make you an architect. In fact if you g

If you hire an architect to design a house, then make some adjustments to the blueprint before it gets built, it doesn't make you an architect. In fact if you give your adjusted design to builders and have it made without consulting an architect first, you have a good chance of unknowingly violating some building code somewhere. Similarly if you use a code generating tool written by a software engineer and then adjust the code output, it doesn't make you a software engineer. Yes, software engineers can use those tools, but they're limiting their growth as engineers if they rely too heavily on those tools. If that's peer pressure, then I am unapologetic about it. I'm not hiring people who can't build their own code to work as software engineers.