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Plonttoday at 1:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

LLMs do not produce repeatable results, by their nature. Two people can give the exact same prompt to the exact same LLM and get different results. It's not a straightforward 1 + 1 always equals 2 process. This is like telling someone else to code something for you. You relinquish control of all the details.

Calling it gatekeeping is just laughable. That's like saying it's gatekeeping to say that the painter painted their painting, and that the person who commissioned the painting did not paint it. It's wholely absurd.

Anybody can pick up a book and learn to actually code themselves. Or you can use an LLM to try to make things without bothering with that. But even if the LLM worked perfectly, pretending these are the same thing is silly.

The history of the word computer is obviously irrelevant. Words change, it turns out.


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pastel8739today at 3:43 AM

It isn’t really by their nature that they don’t give repeatable results, right? They’re just a bunch of math, but they perform better with randomness injected so we choose do to so.

(I’ve heard about some GPU compute nuance meaning that even without randomness injected they still wouldn’t quite be deterministic, but that’s also not core to their nature)

CamperBob2today at 1:35 AM

LLMs do not produce repeatable results, by their nature.

Neither do humans.

Two people can give the exact same prompt to the exact same LLM and get different results.

No one cares.

This is like telling someone else to code something for you.

Exactly.