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So it doesn't count as coding "from scratch" if you already know the language?
LLM is a general purpose tool, it's not trained on a specific task. Again, using this logic you'd have to train a human developer from scratch for every program you write.
If I claim to write a program from scratch, then yes, I will train myself from scratch.
That's not what writing a program from scratch means lmfao.