@inthehands ok, so a couple of points. Recently my daughter (PhD candidate with a masters in speech pathology) was describing how she used python or R to hook up something roughly equivalent to an LLM to a data set she was working with. It was astonishing to me - the task was basically "plumbing" a set of insanely powerful pre-written components together to get a real task accomplished.
(almost) nothing I do as a native C++ developer with 35 years of experience works that way, but still... 1/