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I guess it's a bit relative. You're not growing the wheat, growing the cane, milling the flour, etc either.

or you just don’t have to invent the oven, the overall ingredients and how to make a dough, but still need to learn how to get from the basic ideas to something tasty which you want to show to the world...

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first buy Pillsbury Deep Dish Pie Crust" - Carl Sagan

For those not in the know, the joke here is a play on the real quote from Carl Sagan:

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

> It's not "from scratch" if it's using OpenCV, TensorFlow, and a web service to do all of the work.

To be fair, the web service (for which this article appears to be inbound marketing) is optional and presented as an alternative to building anything at all.