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If the analogy is good, does it mean AI boosters hate programming, and feel like it's a chore and waste of time? Yet they keep calling themselves programmers.

I dislike cooking; I don't call myself a chef, nor go on cooking forums saying they're all idiots for churning butter as a hobby, and telling them they are luddite dinosaurs just because I bought myself an Instant Pot.

And clamoring that instant pot is capable of doing the job of 10 chefs, while conveniently forgetting that chefs using the instant pot is way more useful. And then congratulating each other on new way of adjusting the temperature and timer of the instant pot.

I for one have spent my career calling myself not a programmer but others think I'm half decent enough

I'm not calling you bad programmer, but one always has to take into account that our industry has no accreditation.

LLMs are more like having someone else microwave something for you, rather than having someone else (who knows what they are doing) cook for you.

Like what?