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bojanyesterday at 6:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

Automation normally implies deterministic outcomes.

Developers all over the world are under pressure to use these improbability machines.


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nradovyesterday at 7:05 PM

Does it though? Even without LLMs, any sufficiently complex software can fail in ways that are effectively non-deterministic — at least from the customer or user perspective. For certain cases it becomes impossible to accurately predict outputs based on inputs. Especially if there are concurrency issues involved.

Or for manufacturing automation, take a look at automobile safety recalls. Many of those can be traced back to automated processes that were somewhat stochastic and not fully deterministic.

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tick_tock_ticktoday at 1:11 AM

> Automation normally implies deterministic outcomes.

Clearly you haven't seen our CI pipeline.