On: GPT-5.2

[4ndrewl]

This is by design, given a non-determenitisic application?

[jhancock → 4ndrewl]

sure. It may be more than that...possibly due to variable operating params on the servers and current load.

On whole, if I compare my AI assistant to a human worker, I get more variance than I would from a human office worker.

[pixl97 → jhancock]

Thats because you don't 'own' the LLM compute. If you instead bought your office workers by the question I'm sure the variability would increase.

[astrange → jhancock]

They're not really capable of producing varying answers based on load.

But they are capable of producing different answers because they feel like behaving differently if the current date is a holiday, and things like that. They're basically just little guys.