alt Hacker NewsThat’s 100% correct, but importantly JIT compilers are built with the goal of outputting semantically equivalent instructions.
And the vast, vast majority of the time, adding a new line to the source code will not result in an unrecognizably different output.
With an LLM changing one word can and frequently does cause the out to be so 100% different. Literally no lines are the same in a diff. That’s such a vastly different scope of problem that comparing them is pointless.
No, but will certainly result in a complete different sequence of machine code instructions, or not, depending on what that line actually does, what dynamic types it uses, how often it actually gets executed, the existence of vector units, and so forth.
Likewise, as long as the agent delivers the same outcome, e.g. an email is sent with a specific subject and body, the observed behaviour remains.