alt Hacker News> not really into the brush aspect so you pay someone to paint what you describe. That’s not doing, it’s commissioning.
What if I have a block of marble and a vision for the statue struggling from inside it and I use an industrial CNC lathe to do my marble carving for me. Have I sculpted something? Am I an artist?
What if I'm an architect? Brunelleschi didn't personally lay all the bricks for his famous dome in Florence --- is it not architecture? Is it not art?
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diamond559 • yesterday at 1:17 AM
Did the CNC lathe decide where to make the cuts based on patterns from real artists it was trained on to regurgitate a bland copy of real artists work?
I would call the designing of the building art, yes. But I wouldn’t call it construction.
I would also call designing a system to be fed into an LLM designing. But I wouldn’t call it programming.
If people are more into the design and system architecture side of development, I of course have no problem with that.
What I do find baffling, as per my original comment, is all the people saying basically “programming is way more fun now I don’t have to do it”. Did you even actually like programming to begin with then?