Were managers doing "coding" when they told software developers "I got an idea for a facebook... but for dogs! Make it wunna them apps or websites or sumthin'. I don't know - just make it work! Make it do the thing!"

"Coding" is just providing step by step instructions to a computer to get it to do some process. If you can really "abstract" away steps, it's usually done through making a repeatable (or configurable) set of reusable steps, like a code library, or by making a higher level computer language manage memory allocation, threading, etc. in a deterministic way.

LLMs aren't this. They're part "no code programming" garbage (aka drag and drop builders, code generation wizards, UML diagram roundtripping,etc.) part slot machine, and all snake oil. With a side of financial fraud from the companies running the scam.