A compiler does so deterministically and there is no AI involved.
Let's get this topic back on track. What is it that you think a compiler does if not take in what you typed out for what you want and use that to generate code?
That difference - and the assumed delta in difficulty, training and therefore cost involved - is why the latter case is newsworthy.
When has a semantic "argument" ever felt like good faith? All it can ever be is someone choosing what a term means to them and try to beat down others until they adopt the same meaning. Which will never happen because nobody really cares.
They are hilarious, but pointless. You know that going into it.
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?
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?
No. Nobody here except you agrees with this. The distinction between natural languages and formal languages exists for a reason.
citation? source? Who is we?