When using other people’s code, there actually is a long-established system of attribution and licencing. You still have to do some (occasionally quite complex) problem solving to figure out how to apply their code and your previous expertise to the task.

It would be more like prompting AI with a fully written text to translate into a different language… except that compiling your code generally produces mostly deterministic, predictable results (which, indeed, is part of programming: to predict how your program will behave) which you can test for errors and debug, while the AI translation is nondeterministic by design (because it’s supposed to sound human and humans don’t speak deterministically either) and if you know enough to check the translation, it would have been much less wasteful to just translate it your damn self instead of burning the planet for a petty convenience.