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devsdayesterday at 6:13 PM1 replyview on HN

> New models come out constantly and over time companies will phase out older ones. These newer models will be better, sure, but their outputs will be different.

IIUC, same model with same seed and other parameters is not guaranteed to produce the same output.

If anyone is imagining a future where your "source" git repo is just a bunch of highly detailed prompt files and "compilation" just needs an extra LLM code generator, they are signing up for disappointment.


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carlmryesterday at 6:27 PM

>IIUC, same model with same seed and other parameters is not guaranteed to produce the same output.

Models are so large that random bit flips make such guarantees impossible with current computing technology:

https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.528.pdf