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atq2119yesterday at 5:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Unless you're systematically repeating the exact same task, the most parsimonious explanation is that you're seeing natural variation based on different tasks, random sampling of tokens, etc.


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osigurdsonyesterday at 11:12 PM

I don't think this explains the phenomenon as is more temporal in nature - not prompt to prompt. I'm sure the AI labs gracefully degrade to simpler models when resources are low - why wouldn't they?