[Delk]

I'm not asking for LLM tools to be similar to compilers, or saying that they can't be useful if they aren't. I know rather well that the two are different, and that's the point.

Because LLMs aren't deterministic in terms of producing semantically correct output, that just means they aren't similar to compilers. That means you probably can't just start blindly trusting that their output matches the input and thus ignore understanding the code, as most people mostly can with compilers.

I think that's what people mean with "determinism" when they compare LLMs to compilers, or in response to other people suggesting LLMs are no different than compilers.