The Star Trek computer – I grew up with TNG – is the example I always think of. They ask it in human language to pull up some data, create a visualization, run an analysis. You get the sense that people also still write programs in the future in a more manual way – but, done well these LLMs are the building blocks for that more conversational way of getting the computer to do what you want it to do.
A lot of the complaints that come up on Hacker News are around the idea that a piece of code needs to be elegantly crafted "Just so" for a particular purpose. An efficient algorithm, a perfectly correct program. (Which, sorry but – have you seen most of the software in the world?)
And that's all well and good – I like the craft too. I'm proud of some very elegant code I've written.
But, the writing is on the wall – this is another turning point in computing similar to the personal computer. People scoffed at that too. "Why would regular people want a computer? Their programs will be awful!"