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So by your logic all the PMs, managers and customers are programmers, right? After all, there’s a human compiler that takes their input and produces a program?
by wiseowise 6mo ago
So by your logic all the PMs, managers and customers are programmers, right? After all, there’s a human compiler that takes their input and produces a program?
- brabel 6mo agoThey are programmers when they write a prompt and get runnable code as a result, yes… but no if asking a human to write the code because if you have an intermediate, manual step between the text and the running code, you don’t have an automated process and hence it’s no longer even an application, let alone a “compiler”.
- matt_kantor 6mo agoWhy does it matter if a human or a machine is responsible for turning the prompt into code? If there's a black box which I can send C code into one side of and get faithful machine code out the other, I'd call that box a "compiler". I wouldn't rename it if I later find out that there are little elves inside doing the translation.
- brabel 6mo agoSorry but that’s a childish take.
- matt_kantor 6mo agoWould you mind explaining why?