Comment by fooker

13 days ago

Coming soon to a programming ecosystem near you:

LLM(eat apples in fruitbasket)

vs

foreach (apple in fruitbasket) apple.Eat()

Your comment can be repeated almost word for word here.

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anonymous908213  13 days ago

Not at all. I'm comparing two different syntaxes that can reliably compile to the same machine code. A syntax that produces non-deterministic results is a completely different matter.

  • fooker  12 days ago

    > non-deterministic

    You can control the amount of non determinism.

    And also, it is interesting that you think modern compilers are deterministic.

    • xigoi  12 days ago

      While an LLM with a fixed seed is technically deterministic, it’s still unpredictable.

      > And also, it is interesting that you think modern compilers are deterministic.

      A compiler, unless it has a bug, will always produce output matching the specification of the language.

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