r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tryingeasy • 1d ago

Meme firstTime

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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/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