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toomuchtodotoday at 4:15 PM3 repliesview on HN

Markdown can never guarantee deterministic agent operations. It is an influence on inference, not a deterministic code path. How "statistically reliable" is it?


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nyc_data_geektoday at 4:19 PM

99 percent of the time it works every time

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fweimertoday at 5:17 PM

I'm pretty sure people said this about the early COBOL compilers, too. They were buggy, the API had terrible uptime, and was slow to respond.

Overall, this whole approach to programming seems to align really well with the original premise of COBOL. I wonder when people will start putting

# Identification Division

into their Markdown files.

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vanuatutoday at 5:03 PM

you use evals to measure nondeterministic behavior and abstract deterministic behavior behind tools