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Yeah it’s just a LLM, able to do text transformations based on what latent factors it has captured in the training stage. But programming is not text manipulation, just like writing is not only putting words on paper and music is not merely producing sounds.

Anyone can sat before a piano and start hitting keys. And someone can rig up some apparatus that highlight which keys to hit at precise times in order to play Moonlight Sonata. But no one will call those people pianist. Sure a good pianist can use such apparatus to learn to play a piece. But he may also not buy such thing and just use a music sheet.



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