LLMs have caused quite a commotion in 2023.  There's a fair amount of anxiety among software engineers about what they'll mean for our industry.  Beyond the obvious potential to expedite software creation by supplanting much of the coding exercise directly, LLMs have the potential to enhance even the less tactile aspects of software development. Much of what software engineers do is to act as translators.  Most programming we do today is imperative, meaning you must tell a computer what to do .  In order to do this,  you must first articulate what you want it to do.  For an experienced engineer, writing the code is the easy part.  Truly understanding what customer wants can be more challenging.  Spoken language fails the best of us particularly when it comes to conveying technically precise and complete instructions.   There are many reasons for this.  Humans have shared context, cultural norms, physical and emotional experien...