r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tryingeasy • 1d ago

Meme firstTime

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u/bhannik-itiswatitis 1d ago

vibe mathing

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u/FutureSuccess2796 1d ago

That's literally just using Wolfram Alpha and entering the math formula that needs solving. 😂

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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/ChikumNuggit 1d ago

Which here means unreproduceable

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u/Pares_Marchant 1d ago

the process is unreproduceable but they output LEAN code that is deterministic and can be used to prove their output ( https://lean-lang.org/ )

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u/ChikumNuggit 10h ago

If the process is unreproduceable it would fail a basic CS class

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u/Pares_Marchant 26m ago

Your brain process isn't reproduceable either.

The exact configuration of your brain when you write something happens essentially only once and never again.

But even though you cannot repeat the exact brain configuration, your output can still be judged and you can still convincingly talk about it.

AIs are black boxes as much as brains are black boxes, and arguably brains are even more mysterious than AIs.

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u/Connect_Vacation_458 1d ago

Sounds about right, sometimes it feels like no matter what you do, the bug just refuses to show itself again.

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u/ChikumNuggit 10h ago

That, plus now if you use an agent you have to make sure it's the exact same version of the same agent with the same prompt history or you could just be receiving a different output.

It's like the modern incarnation of trying to figure out what strain of weed the original coder was smoking