alt Hacker NewsYeah, it's not the non-determinism; it's that they don't do what I say. I can't imagine writing a nontrivial program without, at a minimum, reading and editing the pieces as they're being produced. People aren't complaining about non-determinism; they're complaining about the results being non-deterministically sometimes wrong.
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saghm • today at 5:12 AM
If the results are non-deterministic, unless I'm happy with literally any possible result, then yeah, I'm going to be unhappy with all of the other results. That's what non-determinism means. What would being right always with non-deterministic results even look like in terms of code output?
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bryanrasmussen • today at 4:26 AM
How often do programmers do what managers say, and how often do managers say what is wanted or needed?
And if they were deterministically sometimes wrong, that wouldn't be better.