using the definite article "the" compiler perpetuates institutions of hegemonical control over the language which all users contribute to defining. "the compiler invoked by the user" or even better "the user's compiler" can help to temporally and contextually situate the compiler and to understand it (like all software) as a constantly shifting result of human effort, amorphous and alive. the compiler is not out there, defined by the result of a CI job. it's in here. the compiler is within all of us all the time