So I reread here and I think I misunderstood what you meant. I meant that the process of generating the models, and otherwise interacting with them are regular

So I reread here and I think I misunderstood what you meant. I meant that the process of generating the models, and otherwise interacting with them are regular programs. The model itself is I guess more like a database or something, but it too is just regular data. The original thing I was replying to was claiming that the process in general was "not a program", as if there was some magic thing going on that made the model different from output of other programs, or the training was somehow magical. (that is how I read it at least)