I've written more than one compiler, so I definitely understand how compilers work.

It seems you're trying to call anything that transforms one thing into another a compiler. We all know what a compiler is and what it does (except maybe you? It's not clear to me) so I genuinely don't understand why you're trying to overload this terminology further so that you can call LLMs compilers. They are obviously and fundamentally different things even if an LLM can do its best to pretend to be one. Is a natural language translation program a compiler?

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9rx 3 days ago | parent [-]

> Is a natural language translation program a compiler?

We have always agreed that a natural language compiler is theoretically possible. Is a natural language translation program the same as a natural language compiler, or do you see some kind of difference? If so, what is the difference?

	▲	gitremote 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> We have always agreed that a natural language compiler is theoretically possible. No. Nobody here except you agrees with this. The distinction between natural languages and formal languages exists for a reason.
	▲	kkapelon 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> We have always agreed that a natural language compiler is theoretically possible citation? source? Who is we?