[amw-zero]

This is a really, really, really bad comparison. I used to say the same thing. But the semantic distance between compiling a for loop to equivalent assembly instructions is much smaller than the distance between "I'd like a web application that can store and retrieve todo items." The space of the latter is practically infinite in what can be "compiled."

[_verandaguy]

A counterpoint, since I never made that logical jump in your latter part of your comment: programming languages are, functionally, all domain-specific languages and do a good job of either describing directly, or consistently, deterministically, providing a reasonable and unambiguous abstraction over low-level concepts expressed by assembly languages.

Human languages are mostly very bad at this, and in particular bad at mapping low-level abstraction to the human written word unambiguously in a way that is as expressive as programming languages.

Inference closes that specific gap significantly (which is why anyone at all sees LLMs as a useful option to explore), but it will never be as good as a purpose-built language designed to map to a reasonable corresponding assembly language implementation.