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The 1:1 is long gone, that is the UNIX K&R C days.
Modern compilers are full of heuristics, PGO driven optimizations, machine learning compiler passes, JIT compilers, and various kinds of GC implementations, the time of 1:1 mappings is long gone.
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while true, this does not change the overall point the parent was making.
i cannot type "make me an exploit based on whatever these diffs fixed" into a compiler and get usable output. and i cannot type "make me a budget, here is 6 months of credit card receipts" into a compiler and get a budget. etc.
Even with optimizations, if you keep your backend same same code with same flag will return identical binary (modulo datetime and file location being for some reason embedded).
Same query to same AI, at different times of day will might not return the same answer. For example I wrote some docs for a class that had 14 methods. So I asked for autocomplete docs in 2 methods, and it followed other method comments well well. Then I asked to do the same task for 2 more methods and it fucked up, requiring manual edits.
I did say barring optimizations to ensure that that was taken into account. The link is a deterministic one, which is what matters. If the program would do something you did not program you'd see that as a compiler bug.