In the comparison to compilers, it relevant to point out that work began on them in the 1950's. That they're basically solid by the time most people here used them, should be looked at with that time frame in mind. ChatGPT came out in 2022, 3-4 years ago. Compilers have had around three quarters of a century years to get where they are today. I'll probably be dead in seventy years, nevermind have any idea what AI (or society) is going to look like then!

But for reference, we don't (usually) care which register three compiler uses for which variable, we just care that it works, with no bugs. If the non-dertetminism of LLMs mean the variable is called file, filename, or fileName, file_name, and breaking with convention, why do we care? At the level Claude let's us work with code now, it's immaterial.

Compilation isn't stable. If you clear caches and recompile, you don't get a bit-for-bit exact copy, especially on today's multi-core processors, without doing extra work to get there.