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wasmainiaclast Monday at 8:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Code has always been nondetermistic. Which engineer wrote it? What was their past experience? This just feels like we are accepting subpar quality because we have no good way to ensure the code we generate is reasonable that wont mayyyybe rm-rf our server as a fun easter egg.


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mort96last Monday at 10:05 PM

Code written by humans has always been nondeterministic, but generated code has always been deterministic before now. Dealing with nondeterministically generated code is new.

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