It strikes me: is anyone else sick of people calling developing software "building"? Even as a software developer, it feels very supercilious.
There’s a line between baking a cake and building a wedding cake where it stops being about the ingredients and starts being about the desired form. https://shunbridal.com/article/how-tobuild-a-wedding-cake
It’s in that context where building software makes sense. You need to link a bunch of different components together to make a greater whole.
The problem isn't one of technical definitions, it's one of performative definitions.
I am technically an Online Communications Solutions Integration Architect, and also a guy posting on an internet forum.
I didn't think of it before but you're right building feels like implying more weight than it feels right. But also I concede this is quite subjective.