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cloudkingtoday at 4:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

How do you create repeatable tests in a non-deterministic system? Every time you send the same prompt you get a different answer.


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CharlesWtoday at 4:56 PM

This is a good overview of how this is done: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for...

ssivarktoday at 4:54 PM

The actual tokens might be non-deterministic, but you could look for proxy measures that are supposed to be invariant. Eg. correctness/performance on benchmarks, "thinking level" on complex problems, etc

6gvONxR4sf7otoday at 5:58 PM

That's like the entire field of statistics.