> would the same thing not have happened with the rise of high level languages?

Any argument that attempts to frame LLMs as analogous to compilers is too flawed to bother pursuing. It's not that compilers are deterministic (an LLM can also be deterministic if you have control over the seed), it's that the compiler as a translator from a high level language to machine code is a deductive logical process, whereas an LLM is inherently inductive rather than deductive. That's not to say that LLMs can't be useful as a way of generating high level code that is then fed into a compiler (an inductive process as a pipeline into a deductive process), but these are fundamentally different sorts of things, in the same way that math is fundamentally different from music (despite the fact that you can apply math to music in plenty of ways).