alt Hacker Newsa semantics discussion but I think it would be fair to call them "indeterministic tools" and there are other tools that are indeterministic besides LLMs
People try to wrangle the indeterministic outputs through deterministic layers to convert the indeterminism to something determined
How would people wrangle indeterministic outputs through deterministic layers?
You can multiply /dev/random for how many (non-zero) constants you like, but the result will stay just as random