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Anons weigh in on this. Let's say I am the author of a very popular skyrim mod. I won't say which one, but let's say you might have seen it before. People love the designs and the writing in it. I texture everything myself and write all the dialogue myself.

But I genuinely don't know how to code. I DON'T know. I just know the skyrim modding tools by themselves, and these skills haven't transferred to C++.

But I want to add mechanics that use C++. Because I am intimately familiar with the modding tools, I know exactly what I want and how it would work, I just can't get there.

So I use ChatGPT to create the code to do it. Let's say, hypothetically, that it actually works. Put away your comments about "oh so you created a hot mess". No, it REALLY works. Even if I don't know HOW, I know if it gave me a working output or not. It isn't adding anything creative to the process, what it does is effectively identical to anything a human could have done, maybe a bit more or less efficient.

I don't use it to make models, textures, dialogue, or any creative stuff. I just use it to code mechanics that punch well above my weight in terms of what I could do alone without learning an entirely new skill, iterating my way through the process until I come across what I already knew to be the right answer, because I knew enough about how the modding tools work that I knew what the right answer was.

I am, again, completely code-illiterate. All my skills lie in other things. Learning C++ from scratch would take weeks or even years to master what an LLM spit out for me in days. And again, it all works.

Is this bad?