When LLMs first came out, they weren't very good at it, which makes all the difference. Sometimes the thing that's really good at something gets a different name. Chef vs cook, driver vs chauffeur, painter vs artist, programmer vs software developer, etc.
No. That’s why he called it “a new kind of coding”.
"New" doesn't mean it was invented that morning. Things that are a few years old can still be considered "new".
When LLMs first came out, they weren't very good at it, which makes all the difference. Sometimes the thing that's really good at something gets a different name. Chef vs cook, driver vs chauffeur, painter vs artist, programmer vs software developer, etc.