blazinglyfast's comments

On: LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers

[blazinglyfast]

> even if it was deterministic (which you can technically make it to be I guess?)

No. LLMs are undefined behavior.

[xixixao → blazinglyfast]

OP means “given the same input, produce the same output” determinism. This isn’t really much different from normal compilers, you might have a language spec, but at the end of the day the results are determined by the concrete compiler’s implementation.

But most LLM services on purpose introduce randomness, so you don’t get the same result for the same input you control as a user.

[zaphar → xixixao]

You can get deterministic output if just turn the temperature all the way down. The problem is that you usually get really bad results, deterministically. It turns out the randomness helps in finding solutions.

[recursive → zaphar]

You can also get deterministic output if you use whatever temperature you want and use an arbitrary fixed RNG seed.

On: Unreal Tournament 2004 is back

[blazinglyfast]

With the best gaming OST of all time.

On: Ghostty is now non-profit

[blazinglyfast]

Have you tried kitty?

On: After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be

[blazinglyfast]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

On: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

[blazinglyfast]

False dichotomy. Both can be true.

[bilekas → blazinglyfast]

> False dichotomy.

Not sure I follow, I didn't say it wasn't worrying or an issue. Just the reasons for it getting to this point are valid.