There are some programmers who treat the job as just plumbing together what is to them completely incomprehensible black boxes, who treat the computer as a mystery machine that just does things "somehow", but these programmers will almost always be hacks that spend their entire career producing mediocre code.
There are things such a programmer can build, but they are very limited by their lack of in depth understanding, and it is only a tiny fraction of what a more competent programmer can put together.
To get beyond being a hack, you need to understand the entire stack, including the code that you didn't write, including both libraries, frameworks and the OS, and including the hardware, the networking layers, and so forth. You don't have to be an expert at these things by any means, but you do need to understand them and be comfortable treating them as transparent boxes that you may have to go in and fiddle with at some point to get where you need to go. Sometimes you need to vendor a dependency and change it. Sometimes you need to drop it entirely and replace it with something more fit for purpose you built yourself.
An outsourced developer isn't a "tool". They're a human being, and responsible for their actions. They're being paid, and they either act responsibly or they get replaced.
A vibe coder is a human using a tool. The human is responsible for code quality, and if it's not good enough, they need to keep using the tool to make it better. That means understanding the tool's output.
If an artist used Photoshop to create a billboard ad that was ugly, they don't get to blame Photoshop. They have to keep using the tool until their output is good.
I'd think that depends on the model of responsibility at play.
For example, suppose I hire a building contractor to build a house, and the electrician he subcontracts makes mistake.
From my perspective, the prime contractor is equally responsible for that mistake regardless of whether he used a subcontractor, or did the work himself but used a broken tool.
This doesn't make the electrician any less of a "person" in the deeply important ways, but it's not a distinction that's relevant to my handling of the problem.