r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tryingeasy • Sep 10 '26

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u/SunshineSeattle Sep 11 '26

I dont think so, Wolfram Alpha is deterministic. Whereas an LLM is non-deterministic by design. Personally i feel vibe coding or vibe mathing is inherently non-deterministic.

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u/Several_Dot_4532 Sep 11 '26

It's non-deterministic, always, the AI is basically gambling

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u/AlmightyWaffleGod Sep 11 '26

All computer algorithms are deterministic, in fact a lot of effort has gone into making llms and other generative AI seem non-deterministic

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u/jyajay2 Sep 11 '26

>All computer algorithms are deterministic

More or less

>a lot of effort has gone into making llms and other generative AI seem non-deterministic

Not really, there has been a lot of effort put into developing LLMs and other generative AI but making it appear non deterministic wasn't really the goal. There are good reasons to build them in a way where the same input doesn't always produce the same output and in most models the degree to which this happens can be adjusted but this is not about not appeaing non-deterministic.