I've always been somewhat suspicious of this AI generated code stuff. I get what's happening, but I'm not convinced it's all that fundamentally different than w

I've always been somewhat suspicious of this AI generated code stuff. I get what's happening, but I'm not convinced it's all that fundamentally different than what compilers have been doing for decades. Isn't a compiler a code generator? And isn't the stuff we humans write simply instructions to a compiler on what code to generate? Compilers have tons of intelligence in them. At least when I was a CS grad (an ancient time ago) complex sets of heuristics were considered AI. And compilers use complex sets of heuristics to determine things like optimizations. So I guess what I'm saying is that this news feels over hyped to me.