[arrowsmith]

> Were there similar gnashing of the teeth and wails of despair when compilers were first introduced?

Yes, at least according to ChatGPT:

"Compilers didn’t arrive to universal applause; they arrived into a world where a chunk of programmers absolutely believed the machine could not be trusted to write “real” code—until the productivity wins (and eventually the performance) became undeniable."

Damn that sounds familiar.

[falloutx]

compiler is deterministic, coding models are not. compilers have been unit tested and will generate same output for a given input. They are not the same things.

[arrowsmith]

So?