This. Sure I synthesize, but everything I synthesize is made out of stuff that came from somewhere. If the "snippets" are small enough, they become no different than me consulting the man page for a function.

I think this will require looking at some actual examples to try to judge, and figure out how to articulate the basis for the judgement.

Hm. That begs the question what good is it if it deals in such small bits? I guess that means if the snippets are large enough to be of any value at all, then they are automatically big enough to be damning.