IOW LLMs make programming somewhat higher-level similar to what new programming languages in the past, either via code generation from natural language (main use-case right now?), or by interpreting a "program" written in natural language ("sum all the numbers in the 3rd column of this CSV").

The latter case enables more people to program to a certain extent, similar to what spreadsheets did, while we still need full SWEs in the first case, as you pointed out.