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this_useryesterday at 1:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not really though, since the result of the prompt is not deterministic. It greatly depends on the model, the version, the harness, even time of day if the provider's infrastructure is currently overloaded and is silently degrading performance. Some things also require multi-turn interactions.


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kylemartyesterday at 1:49 PM

100% agree with this. Was about to write the same thing.

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lelanthranyesterday at 2:10 PM

> Not really though, since the result of the prompt is not deterministic. It greatly depends on the model, the version, the harness, even time of day if the provider's infrastructure is currently overloaded and is silently degrading performance. Some things also require multi-turn interactions.

All of that are even more reasons to reject AI-generated code: if it cannot be trusted to produce same (or even similar) output just from the prompts, why accept it at all?

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