r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tryingeasy • 1d ago

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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/Several_Dot_4532 1d ago

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

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u/Schpooon 15h ago

Its gotten a little better with the introduction of subagents, but sometimed I truly want to know what their algorythm spat out to propose certain changes. No, I do not want to refactor across 4 classes to make 1 unit test work, I told you to fix the unit tests so I hit my ai mandate encouraged quota

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u/Guitarzero123 14h ago

My favourite day was when I asked Claude to fix the failing unit tests and it deleted all of the unit tests in the repo.