alt Hacker NewsThe arbitrary and non-deterministic nature of LLM workflows gives me full on ick. As an old embedded/systems guy I have always prioritized determinism and repeatability in my workflows.
But damn, agents are amazing and I'm enjoying being a "thought process designer". I'm not going back. Even if AI development stops today my career will never be the same.
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ACCount37 • today at 5:36 PM
It's like working with humans.
Can't help but feel like a lot of people who are deep in IT made it there because they hated working with humans.
I felt the same way about the non-determinism but realized it can be really beneficial to have a machine that can fairly reliably turn non-determinism into determinism.
I’m working on a tiny agent harness at home to learn and the process of taking human speech and turning it into agent tool calls that output something generally deterministic depending on how the tool is defined is so interesting.
One of the big takeaways is you really only have to rely on the non-determinism<->determinism translation layer once when you switch between the two domains. You can obviously rely on it more if you want, and that’s probably faster because determinism is hard, but you don’t need too do that.