I agree with your sentiment but it technically is a program albeit a less-useful one. If you define a program as "a sequence or set of instructions in a progra

I agree with your sentiment but it technically is a program albeit a less-useful one. If you define a program as "a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute" [1], a prompt follows the definition because it is a sequence of tokens that a LLM ingests and executes. The execution is in the form of creating context and other input. Now, is the non-deterministic property useful? Personally I don't think so but I think it's early to judge its usefulness because we're still figuring out its applications. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program