[voidfunc]

I like building stuff. I don't care about the code. I convinced myself over 20 years that I liked coding to get myself through the drudgery of corporate work but the reality is the building was the important thing to me. I'm able to build things quickly with AI.

[lelanthran]

> I like building stuff. I don't care about the code.

Sounds like you like having stuff, not building stuff.

[SoftTalker]

It's all a matter of what you have added.

A carpenter can build a house with commercially produced dimensional lumber without having to harvest the trees, cut them into boards of standard dimensions, kiln-dry it, and transport it to the building site. We still say he "built" the house.

At some point, though, it's fair to ask "what did I add?"

If you are directing other people (or maybe robots, someday) to do the actual building, you can't really claim to have "built a house" even though it all happened under your direction.

I guess bottom line for me to feel I had a real part in "building" a thing would be whether I added anything I am specifically qualified or skilled at doing, or did I do what anyone could have done?

[triprjt]

i think he meant having stuff that he brought to life

[coliveira]

But he didn't, it was given to him by AI.

[sebastiennight]

I'd say many fathers are pretty happy "having kids given to them by a woman" (to use your terminology).

It seems you wouldn't give them credit for it, but most of them appear to feel quite a bit of responsibility for bringing those to life.

[coliveira]

A woman is a human being. An AI is a machine.

[sebastiennight]

Which makes your point make less sense?

I plant a seed, a human being carries it to fruition for 9 months through her determination, love and literal life blood, and I can claim I brought the seed to life.

He plants an idea and patiently coaxes a machine to spit out the code that matches it, you're giving the machine the credit.

I don't get it.

[tasuki]

If he was constraining the AI's output, his input was meaningful.

Did you ever bring anything to life? Whatever it is, you are also relying on the work others have done before you and standing on the shoulders of giants.