What LLMs solve for programming are a class of low-hanging-fruit problems: things that in many respects could be done by hand, but are too expensive to bother w

What LLMs solve for programming are a class of low-hanging-fruit problems: things that in many respects could be done by hand, but are too expensive to bother with relative to the problem's size. If you have a one-shot problem, you may be able to avoid making the actual program and just jump from problem to solution. A lot of the systems that programmers design are potentially representable instead as new iterations of that one shot problem, and therefore something no code need be written for. This does run a risk of getting a wrong answer infinitely fast, but that has never not been the case with computers, it's just a case of now having a kind of "level 3 autonomy" where you may need to abruptly grab the wheel and get the answer yourself.