On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 at 16:04, Richard Kenner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I don't find the original suggestion ambiguous. "Use to
> > generate" is very different from
> > "Use to learn how to write".
>
> It is different, but I still think "use" is too broad.  I might want
> to write something, but be unsure of the best algorithm to use.  Or
> the best way to interface to, say, the GCC tree.  So I ask ChatGPT
> questions about that. I'm "using" those answers to generate code, but
> not including code generated by ChatGPT.

Ah, let me clarify why I don't think the original is ambiguous: I
consider 'generate' a word-of-power.
It means using an actual generator to generate the code, not the
general act of generating code via
whichever means including typing it manually.

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