Handwriting machine code seems like an arbitrary line to draw.

I'll preface that "built" is an overloaded term, and different people use LLMs with lower or higher levels of involvement.

But does a tech lead "build" a feature when he delegates to a junior engineer and makes suggestions/corrections as needed?

With modern agentic coding harnesses, the delegation analogy seems much more apt than a compiler analogy, which never really held water.

The tech lead's team "built" the feature, when the junior engineer did the actual work and the tech lead delegated it to them and coached them.

	▲	acoustics 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's a great framing. It's a team effort. I like to say that I build software with Claude. "With" does double duty here, meaning both "alongside" and "using", and it covers the range of ways I use the tools. The objection to saying "I built this" is pedantic, but so is the insistence that one really did build it. But does it really matter? At the end of the day, there is tons of cool new software to make and play with, and it wouldn't be there without human guidance.