I think the difference involves how many layers of stuff someone claims is "theirs" and whether that claim of credit and expertise is valid. Imagine a coworker

I think the difference involves how many layers of stuff someone claims is "theirs" and whether that claim of credit and expertise is valid. Imagine a coworker writes some decent C code, but then at a meeting they start taking credit for the bytecode and the default optimizations done by the compiler. That's analogous to people who write LLM prompts and then claim the same level of authorship over the code which was all generated and edited on an indirect level.