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by someothherguyy 482 days ago
They are programmers. Its not much different from coding using cookbooks or snippets, which plenty of people have done in the past and continue to do.
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If AI does all the coding you are customer not a programmer.

Or do you think a customer who describes his requirements to a programmer who writes the actual program is a programmer too?

Have you used what is being called AI here to program? It is a bit more involved than providing requirements once.
Have you ever been a customer to a programmer? It’s more than telling your requirements once.

Did you use AI to program something you couldn’t do yourself? Did you get the same satisfaction because you solved the challenges or did you feel some kind estranged from the result because or wasn’t really your achievement.

I recently made a quest 3 minesweeper game using ChatGPT to code 95% of everything. I felt more like a manager than a coder. A manager with unlimited patience. By the end though, I felt accomplished and understood Unity IDE at a rudimentary level. I learned a lot and had a great time.