Post #1688970
2026-04-24 22:35 UTC
@camertron@ruby.social Look, if you want to compile some code with a compiler, fine. You shouldn't, but fine.
However you absolutely do not get to say you programmed it. You didn't. The computer programmed it for you.
If I buy a car from Honda, I don't get to say I made the car. It's the same principle.
We have to stop normalizing language like "I programmed x with C."
No you didn't. Better: "I used GCC to program it for me."
The former is intellectual dishonesty.
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@camertron@ruby.social 2026-04-25 18:22
@lolitechengineer I'm actually glad you brought this up so I can refute it. There's a big difference between a deterministic text transformation algorithm verifiable at every step (compiler) vs a pseudo-random non-deterministic next-most-likely token predictor (LLM). The machine instructions a compiler produces follow directly from my code, so in a very real sense I did write them. The code an LLM produces does not directly follow from the prompt, therefore I cannot claim authorship.