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You can make the same claim about compiled code vs hand written assembly, and yet the vast majority of software is compiled or interpreted.

A compiler is written by very smart humans to a spec written by humans, also probably smart but I don’t know enough to claim that bit.

An LLM is just displaying the next statistical token.

Completely different.

Or, as I like to put it, pulling out the next refrigerator poetry tile from a stochastic bag of holding.

In the past, hand-crafted assembly code was common because it was easy to beat the compiler. This is still true today in some niches.