Are you still a coder when you use AI 100 times a day?
AI is a type of outsourcing, you became a customer.
AI is a type of outsourcing, you became a customer.
The same type of argument has been made for decades -- when coders wrote in ASM, folks would ask "are you still a coder when you use that fancy C to make all that low-level ASM obsolete?". Etc etc.
Something/someone other writes the code, that's outsourcing.
I wouldn't consider myself an artist if I create a picture per midjourney.
Do you design all the NAND gates in your processor to get the exact program you want out of it or use a general purpose processor?
Current "coding" is just a detail of what you want to do: solve problems. Which can require making a machine do what you want it to.
A coder writes code in a programming language, that what distinguishes them from the customers who use natural language. The coder is the translator between the customer and the machine. If the machine does that, the machine is the coder.
Do consider script kiddies hackers?