If they were equivalent, people would be committing the prompts and not the code

And then getting bugs when they use a new version of the AI, just like people occasionally got bugs when they upgraded to new versions of the compiler...

they would get bugs on every invocation of the software, not on a new version of the AI. it's equivalent to your compiler have a RAND function in it where it chooses between a billion different options every time it compiles, it's absolutely not equivalent to a compiler having a bug.

Compilers are deterministic, LLMs are not. Big difference...