> the output doesn’t feel like mine, and I take no pride in what it produces.

So much this.

I don't understand how some people seem to have no self awareness or shame in saying "I build X" where "X" was entirely prompted by an LLM.

It's like ordering a meal from door dash and calling yourself a chef.

That is almost to say that the only part of the project that matters is the code. But the code is only a tiny part. I take joy in describing the thing and bringing that vision to life.

I agree if you one-shot something, but that hasn't been my experience at all (unless the initial prompt is so detailed that creating it took considerable time).

For me it's more like being a chef but having a cook to cut up things and start cooking them, but you decide when it's done, what spices to put, and how to serve it - arguably the most fun and creative part.

Let the LLM do the 80% and then you take all the credit by decorating the code in your style.

What’s intellectually “mine” is the task anyway, not the code.

You should be able to strip all the creative intelligence out of the code and what you’d have there is a prompt.