[JohnFen]

> To me, LLMs are just "advanced" (read: statistical) codegen, unlike compilers and interpreters that are deterministic

That's fair, although I would disagree with the notion that compilers are code generators.

But using code generators is not something that is interesting to me even a little. They remove much of what interests me about programming. So your explanation -- while it makes sense and I wouldn't argue that you should feel any differently -- underlines that I need to get out of this industry.