Are you belittling Steve Jobs, if you say "I see a Steve Jobs in you"?

It seems to me that it would depend greatly on exactly who is being compared or contrasted to Jobs.

Should “to” be “with”?

I’m not sure what you’re driving at.

Does the speaker think negatively of Jobs, and because of that is comparing a distasteful person to Steve Jobs? If a person is attempting to undermine a person’s argument by comparing them to a distasteful person, that’s an ad hominem fallacy.

It is dependent upon the intent of the person making the comparison.

Are you perhaps thinkinv of the term back-handed compliment?

The question you ask is almost exactly the opposite of the question you ask in your details, so it’s difficult to answer on its face without further clarification.

@Seek This is yet another iteration of this question, only getting further away from the actual topic, not closer to it.

Huh?

Exactly.

The “I see a future Steve Jobs in you” or close to that, is meant as a compliment to a prodigy in digital technology.

I think it is a great compliment to the person you are saying it to and that Steve Jobs no longer worries about whether he is being belittled, if he ever did.

How about “You’re going to be an excellent chef like your dad is” imagine if someone said “By bringing up how excellent her dad is, you’re belittling her dad” Ridiculous of course. But what do you call it?

It’s just a comparison and a compliment; I don’t think there’s a term for it.

I’m not referring to the compliment/comparison, I’m referring to the ridiculous response to the compliment/comparison.
Think along the lines of terms like ad hominem (see above @Seek‘s answer) or straw man argument or red herring etc.

No, there isn’t a term for potentially offending someone who’s enough of an ass as to be offended by someone complimenting someone else with their name.

By the way, the dad in this senario , is not/wouldn’t offended. In fact he would be proud of his child. The person who’s offended in this senario, is the one who is saying something like ”*Bringing up the dad’s skill as a chef implies that you think and you’re saying that the dad’s skill is equal to that of his child.”