Yes, in fact there is a ridiculous amount of people in software that want to gatekeep how others do things.

In the context of making a personal project it will never ever matter whether you know how to code or not as long as you enjoyed the process.

It probably stems from a place of fear and pride.

Ironically your comment looks AI written with that analogy.

I'm sure people used analogies before the invention of LLMs. After all, the very concept of an analogy must have made it into the training data.

It boggles my mind how AI discussion is so abrasive that people get their jimmies rustled over just about anything in here.