2026-04-14 12:28 UTC
@hopeless @Possiblydrew So which of your favorite LLM tools are deterministic?
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@hopeless@mas.to 2026-04-14 13:09
@hastar @Possiblydrew The LLMs are actually deterministic themselves; you can give them the same PRNG seed and get the same result. It's wrong to say that they are "random word generators" like there is a dictionary and a random index into the dictionary is chosen... they are choosing what they want to talk about based on the weights they arrived at. You too will not recite what you want to say verbatim each time, but through your internal state decide how to express yourself.