[iLoveOncall]

> The fact I can talk to the computer and it responds to me idiomatically and understands my semantic intent well enough to be nearly indistinguishable from a human being is breath taking

That's called a programming language. It's nothing new.

[fooker]

It's a programming language except the programming part, and the language part.

[Jensson]

How is the text you write not a language, and how is writing instructions that computers follow not programming?

Edit: LLMs biggest feat is being a natural language interpreter, so it can run natural language scripts. It is far from perfect at it, but that is still programming.

[utensil4778]

Sure, in the way that you program your dog to play fetch.