I don't think that DNA is just procedural assembly instructions. Though maybe more akin to something like the encoding of a neural network. Granted I have a basic understanding of DNA.
Maybe you saw this paper about that idea - The Genomic Code: The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism.
"Here, we propose a new analogy, inspired by recent work in machine learning and neuroscience: that the genome encodes a generative model of the organism. In this scheme, by analogy with variational autoencoders, the genome does not encode either organismal form or developmental processes directly, but comprises a compressed space of latent variables."
