Comment by chmod775

You can't run most of what you would probably consider "code" on your computer either. C, Python, Rust, ... all have to be translated into something your computer can execute by compilers and interpreters.

On the other hand no current LLM can implement complex software from specification alone, especially not without iterating. Just today I realized how laughable far we are, after having fought GPT-5.1-Codex-Max for way longer than I should have over correctly implementing a 400 line python script for wrangling some git repositories. These things are infuriatingly bad as soon as you move away from things like web development.