What they are saying is that if you’ve studied computer science , you should be able to write a computer program without storing millions or billions of lines of code from GitHub in your brain.
A CS graduate could workout how to write software without doing that.
So they’re just pointing out the difference in “learning”.
LLM's are not storing millions or billions lines of code, and neither do we. Both store something more general and abstract.
But I'm saying there's a big difference between a CS graduate and some current LLM that learns from "the CS curriculum". A CS graduate can ask questions, use google to learn about things outside of school, work on hobby projects, study existing code outside of what's shown in university, get compiler feedback when things go wrong, etc.
All a language model can do is read text and try to predict what comes next.
A CS graduate could workout how to write software without doing that.
So they’re just pointing out the difference in “learning”.