@ansuz @joeyh And of course there is the question, what is and isn't a compiler? Aren't all functions compilers?
Indeed, Blender's rendering system is in many ways a compiler for images.
But we don't use that way, because it's not helpful, even though Blender and ffmpeg are MORE of compilers than LLMs are. People are reaching for "LLMs might be compilers!" because of the thing they want it to *do* rather than how it *acts*, even though Blender and ffmpeg are by far, under those definitions, much more of compilers than LLMs are.