[inigyou]

If a carpenter uses a table saw, is he still a carpenter?

What if he just throws wood randomly at the table saw and tries to sell whatever pieces come out?

(Never do this with a table saw, btw. They can, and will if you don't use proper procedures, throw wood sideways at speeds that can punch through walls and impale people)

[skinfaxi]

This analogy doesn't make much sense to me. Is the table saw analogous to LLMs because they both work with the appropriate substrate (wood/text)? I don't see how an LLM is like a table saw at all.

Is a musician less of a musician if they use a pre-recorded back-beat and sing on top? Are you not a musician if you use the chord mode on a keyboard?

Is code not hand-written if my editor automatically closes all of my html? What if my editor flags all of the errors and I manually correct them? And what if it auto-corrects at the press of a button?

There is a line and I'm asking about it earnestly, but the table saw analogy doesn't reach it IMO.

[gumpu]

What if I barely know the rules of chess and I use a chess computer to play all my games for me; I win the world title this way. Am I a chess Grant Master?

[inigyou]

I think you already know the answers to all of these questions.

[adamddev1]

This is an excellent analogy that shows how LLMs are fundamentally different than linters, auto-complete, or transpilers.