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English may be a shitty programming language, but wouldn't that imply that wrangling it to get what you want is--in and of itself--a skill, and not "shitty programming" as you put it?

It's definitely a form of authorship--and authorship (of a book) isn't shitty. Writing well is a craft that people hone--to induce wetware computers (i.e., brains) to "hallucinate" (using a term that seems popular with people who interface with these AI tools) what the author desires them too.

Maybe that's the difference? Programming is when you use a very formally constructed language to induce a computer to execute a desired algorithm precisely. Authorship or artistry is when you use a formally loose language (painting, sculpture, writing) to induce a computer to "hallucinate" a desired meme (in the original sense of the word, "unit of meaning").

Both pursuits are somewhat similar, but the breakpoint is the rigor of the language used, maybe?