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Hope all your programs are written in machine code. Wouldn’t want to be proud of compiler output.

I mean yeah? Wouldn't you be more proud of your ability to write a program in machine code than you would in assembly? Or more proud of assembly than of C? Or more proud of C than of Python?

Each stage takes greater effort, effort which creates skill. Those hard-earned skills are accomplishments to be proud of.

When LLMs are remotely comparable to compilers, your analogy might hold water. But in the world of today, it holds none.

And I’m sure ctoth’s non-coder friends will be just devastated to hear that some random online account is embarrassed because they’re proud of a little app they created for fun.

But you're acting like everything that you use AI to build is easy to achieve, and that doesn't seem to be true.