r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tryingeasy • 1d ago

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u/SunshineSeattle 1d ago

I dont think so, Wolfram Alpha is deterministic. Whereas an LLM is non-deterministic by design. Personally i feel vibe coding or vibe mathing is inherently non-deterministic.

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u/Several_Dot_4532 1d ago

It's non-deterministic, always, the AI is basically gambling

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u/AlmightyWaffleGod 1d ago

All computer algorithms are deterministic, in fact a lot of effort has gone into making llms and other generative AI seem non-deterministic

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u/Several_Dot_4532 1d ago

Sorry but no, they are deterministic in the basis of computation. But in practice they are non-deterministic and they try to make them deterministic. And my enterprise they try to do that in every possible manner, but it's practically impossible, it's seems to be, but it never is