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.
