--- title: On Making | daily.dev description: A veteran CS instructor and developer reflects on the personal meaning of 'making' things versus having AI generate them. Using a clever reveal — the article's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/on-making-62egd2m2m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: On Making | daily.dev og:description: A veteran CS instructor and developer reflects on the personal meaning of 'making' things versus having AI generate them. Using a clever reveal — the article's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/on-making-62egd2m2m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/62Egd2M2m.png og:image:alt: On Making og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # On Making **[Beej's Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/beej)** · 16 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A veteran CS instructor and developer reflects on the personal meaning of 'making' things versus having AI generate them. Using a clever reveal — the article's opening sci-fi excerpt, artwork, Rust game code, and even a rebuilt deck were all AI-generated or contractor-built — the author explores why prompting an LLM feels fundamentally different from writing code by hand. The piece examines the philosophical gray area between using tools (compilers, hammers) and delegating creation to agents, concluding that for the author, AI-generated output carries no personal pride of authorship, regardless of how skilled the prompting was. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [On Making](https://daily.dev/posts/on-making-yw9kxfbp2) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [On Making](https://daily.dev/posts/on-making-er3hcl8jd) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [You had a story](https://daily.dev/posts/you-had-a-story-aluw9sjxe) · Read the Tea Leaves · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#genai](https://daily.dev/tags/genai), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/on-making-62egd2m2m) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"On Making","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/on-making-62egd2m2m","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/on-making-62egd2m2m"},"datePublished":"2026-03-31T12:28:18.018Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T12:35:43.536Z","description":"A veteran CS instructor and developer reflects on the personal meaning of 'making' things versus having AI generate them. Using a clever reveal — the article's...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/675bbab69585f929b55e0f9150db3e0b?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/675bbab69585f929b55e0f9150db3e0b?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Beej's Blog","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Beej's Blog","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/logos/placeholder.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/beej"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/on-making-62egd2m2m","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"llm,genai,rust","timeRequired":"PT16M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Beej's Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/beej"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"On Making"}]} ```