Have you been wondering about all this chatter saying programmers will be displaced by AI? That's too general a question. AI is a field that is getting more expansive each day. Where the rubber meets the code is LLM - large language models.

Here's the skinny. Programming is an abstraction of the required state changes to the underlining hardware to accomplish a massive amount of little steps until a greater result can be achieved. In the past, programming languages provided an easier way to get large computing jobs done with, not an impossible effort, but required a lot of programming skill. The barrier was learning a completely odd and syntax complex programming language and editing system to complete the task. That's changing.

What LLMs do is take your native speaking language, like English or Chinese(it doesn't matter), and describe your task in words. The LLM interprets your statements and works out what the appropriate algorithm and data resources are needed to do the task. The programming by a human is bypassed. Now your skill is couched in proper use of your native language to make clear statements. Now English 101 is more important than Computer Science 101.

Welcome to the future, grasshopper.