For "code", substitute "object code".

For "ideas", substitute "code in a higher level language". At least if we actually want to control the ideas. Right now, with those ideas expressed only in English, our control is limited.

What LLM coding does is generate lots of code from a fairly small English (natural language) prompt.

If you look closely, I think you'll see that this is two processes:

1. Translate from fuzzy English to precise machine-executable language

2. Translate from high-level description to lots of low-level code.

Although these two are still pretty great when they are mashed-together, I think they'd be even better, lots better, if we could separate them.

But today we cannot.