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Or theyre just picturing some CRUD app that needs to connect to a few APIs being made for a clueless exec who doesnt even understand their own business problem.

To be fair, a lot of programming does end up being just that.

Probably difference in the boundary of what programming entails too. Eg is coming up with the algo itself part of programming or only the writing the implementation part after the algo is clear.

The first is hard, the second much less so.

I think that's fine and probably kind of their point, no? Because that other part before the typing is also the thing that LLMs are woefully shit at, unless it's a common and solved problem with 1000 published examples.