I don't think anyone would claim that writing a poem yourself and hiring someone to write a poem for you are the same thing.

In the same way, there is a distinct difference form having and encoding the concepts behind a piece of software yourself and having a rough idea of what you want and hiring a bunch of people to work out that conceptualization for you. Contrarily, a compiler or interpreter is just a strict translation of one representation of that conceptualization into another (modulo maybe alterations in one dimension, namely efficiency). It's a completely different dynamic and these snarky analogies are either disingenuous or show that AI boosters understand and reflect on what it is they are really doing far less than the critics.