> A person can implement an algorithm they've never seen before by applying critical thinking and creativity (and maybe domain knowledge). If an AI can't do that, then you cannot credibly say that it's writing original code, because the only thing it has ever read, and the only thing it will ever write, is other people's code.
This doesn't hold at all. Not many people can come up with an original sorting algorithm for example, but people write code all the time.
This doesn't hold at all. Not many people can come up with an original sorting algorithm for example, but people write code all the time.