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Assuming you didn't mean this in jest, I strongly disagree with your suggestion of "pro-coding".

The thing we're talking about is most of the time pretty much the opposite of "professional", which your term alludes to.

UIs, e.g., are not my field of expertise, but I can use AIs to help me produce UI code that is useful to me. It's still a hassle as described by Ng and I'm certainly not flying by the seat of my pants.

The term for someone who dabbles in a field without being an expert in it is not "professional" but "dilettante". I therefore propose the term

Dilletante-coding or short Dilletanting

It is many, many times more apt than "pro-coding".






Dilletanteers? Dilletanteering perhaps?

Although it brings to my mind rich people who don’t need to work for a living and just play at dabbling in things until the shine wears off?




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