The analogy likening LLMs to compilers is extremely specious. In both steps, the text written by the user/programmer is higher-level and thus "easier" but beyon

The analogy likening LLMs to compilers is extremely specious. In both steps, the text written by the user/programmer is higher-level and thus "easier" but beyond that, the analogy doesn't hold. - Natural language is not precise and has no spec, unlike programming languages. - The translation from C (or other higher-level language) to assembly by a given compiler is determined in a way that the behavior of an LLM is not. - On the flip side, the amount of control given to the tool versus what is specified by the programmer is wildly different between the two.