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		wat10000 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commit... Most LLM software isn’t deterministic, sure. But LLMs are just doing a bunch of arithmetic. They can be 100% deterministic if you want them to be.

kiitos 7 months ago [–]

In practice, they definitely are not.

wat10000 7 months ago | [–]

Only because nobody cares to. Just like compilers were not deterministic in practice until reproducible builds started getting attention.

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