You start them when they're young, okay child tell me how to make a piece of toast

"You just make the toast" - a child

"no small one, START w/ 'picking up the toast bread'"

Slowly over time a child will understand what it is to do programmatic-style work. Once there, they "learn" a language. *Plenty *of people say they just can't learn a language (cough cough USA/UK?). I say bullshitttt. You're smarter than you think

Thank you xoxo

Edit: I'm actually a box of rocks masquerading as a techie

That's really not too different from how a dev approaches a problem tbf, especially now that we can do step 2 exactly like you phrased it to some AI code generator instead of searching for it ourselves on StackOverflow