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If you use stable diffusion to make an image, are you "drawing"? Coding is the act of writing code. Prompting an AI until it poops out a half-working product i
by mubou 1y ago
If you use stable diffusion to make an image, are you "drawing"?
Coding is the act of writing code. Prompting an AI until it poops out a half-working product is not writing code.
Having the editor/copilot generate some boilerplate or copying shit from Stack Overflow isn't coding either, but once you've done that you go back to coding, so there's a difference there. (Using SO is part of the job, yes, but so is attending meetings and I sure don't feel like I'm "coding" whilst sitting in standup. Any engineer who spends 100% of their time coding is lucky indeed. The point is, just because you're making software doesn't mean you're "coding".)