Okay, but this obviously isn’t the same as that. C compilers emit assembly as a direct result of the code written. The same compiler given the same code will

Okay, but this obviously isn’t the same as that. C compilers emit assembly as a direct result of the code written. The same compiler given the same code will output the same assembly. This would be true for LLMs if you set the temperature to 1 and fix the seed, but you lose the benefits of language models at that point. There are guarantees about the behavior of a compiler which can be verified by examining the code for the compiler. The same is not true for language models. They are statistically based all the way down.