Comment by tptacek
2 days ago
Why does it matter to you if the code generator is deterministic? The code is.
If LLM generation was like a Makefile step, part of your build process, this concern would make a lot of sense. But nobody, anywhere, does that.
> If LLM generation was like a Makefile step, part of your build process, this concern would make a lot of sense. But nobody, anywhere, does that.
Top level comment of this thread, quoting the article:
> Reading through these commits sparked an idea: what if we treated prompts as the actual source code? Imagine version control systems where you commit the prompts used to generate features rather than the resulting implementation.
Ohhhhhhh. Thanks for clearing this up for me. I felt like I was going a little crazy (because, having missed that part of the thread, I sort of was). Appreciated!