A calculator isn't software, it's hardware. Your inputs into a calculator are code.
Your interaction with LLMs is categorically closer to interactions with people than with a calculator. Your inputs into it are language.
Of course the two are different. A calculator is a computer, an LLM is not. Comparing the two is making the same category error which would confuse Mr. Babbage, but in reverse.
(“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”)
Your interaction with LLMs is categorically closer to interactions with people than with a calculator. Your inputs into it are language.
Of course the two are different. A calculator is a computer, an LLM is not. Comparing the two is making the same category error which would confuse Mr. Babbage, but in reverse.
(“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”)