Which ones are you thinking of? Were they actually generating code, or were they loading in templates or mechanically building interface stubs?
There are hundreds of them for just about every IDE you can think of.
I can't tell if this is a serious question or not, but metaprogramming/generators are decades old concepts that have been common features of basically every IDE since the 90s.
Surely you know the difference, right? I assume you’ve used LLMs to generate code by now?
Is a series of matrix multiplications on a token vector not a mechanical transformation?
Where is the point where you start to anthropomorphize it?
Autocomplete doesn’t really work until you start typing. The fact that my phone recognizes that I’m starting to type a word and the IDE offers the most statistically likely choice for me to accept doesn’t make those words its own. Same with autocomplete on a phone or in a word processor when entering sentences.
FWIW the Copyright Office, for its part, recognizes that AI generated code is mechanically generated and its opinion is that it’s not copyrightable.
But that’s not really what we’re talking about here. We’re talking about attribution and when it becomes important. To me the metaprogramming/codegen case is different because of the nature of the mechanism, particularly if you wrote the inputs that the IDE transformed on your behalf.
The bar for “writes code for you” is very low.
What, specifically, do you have against it?