[h8f1z]

Those who say they enjoy "building" with AI instead of coding are just outsourcing the coding part (while training the AI for outsourced company). It's nothing to enjoy, but yeah, you get the product, which is probably what people enjoy. Getting the product. It's like buying a IKEA furniture and you think you made it by merely assembling it. If you don't know IKEA effect, it's having a greater value for something than it actually is, because you were partly 'involved' in creating/assmebling it.

[AnimalMuppet]

With coding (by hand), there are two aspects of it. One is the pleasure of figuring out how to do things, and one is the pleasure of making something that didn't exist before. Building with AI gives you the second pleasure, but not the first.

Or maybe it still gives you the first, too. Maybe you get that from figuring out how to get the AI to produce the code you want, just like you got it from trying to get the compiler to produce the code you want.

Or maybe it depends on your personality and/or your view of your craft.

Anyway, the point is, people take pleasure in their work in different ways. Those who enjoy building with AI are probably not all lying. Some do enjoy it. And that is not a defect in them. It's fine for them to enjoy it. It's fine for you not to enjoy it.