I would argue some programmers do in fact invent something new. Not all of them, but some. Perhaps 10%.
Second the point is not whether everyone is by profession an inventor but whether most people can be inventors. And to a degree they can be. I think you underestimate that by a large margin.
You can lock people in a room and give them a problem to solve and they will invent a lot if they have the time to do it. GPT will invent nothing right now. It‘s not there yet.
I would argue some programmers do in fact invent something new. Not all of them, but some. Perhaps 10%.
Second the point is not whether everyone is by profession an inventor but whether most people can be inventors. And to a degree they can be. I think you underestimate that by a large margin.
You can lock people in a room and give them a problem to solve and they will invent a lot if they have the time to do it. GPT will invent nothing right now. It‘s not there yet.