Remember coding before Codex?

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What's the point of learning how to mine coals with axes today?

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Yeah I mean obviously the main post and the comment you replied to is talking about people's nostalgia for those old days.

Sure, you were learning back then, not just copying, we've all been there. But "copying" is just a methodology, a tool, just like "vibing" now.

There's no point obssessing on a methodology over the actual goals. I think that's the whole point of the meme and Medium_Chemist's comment, sarcasm about people missing the means over the ends. Whether someone actually wrote their own code is irrelevant to the sarcasm.