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Post #1281767
2026-03-27 20:41 UTC
Some people say it’s just like moving from assembly to a higher level language, like the LLM is a compiler. But it’s absolutely not - compilers are still formal language and completely deterministic: you can trust them to produce a known output for a given input, every single time. With such a guarantee, it truly is just an abstraction, a productivity tool with directly analogous characteristics to the thing it is building on top of. You’re still in control, every action has a traceable outcome
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@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-27 20:49
LLMs are deliberately non-deterministic. So in that regard they are more like humans I suppose; semi-random and in need of coaxing. If you like a supervising role in conditions like that I guess you’re fine, but I don’t. I like to make things with tools that do exactly what I say, every time, like clockwork. Even if it takes longer than asking someone / something else to do it for me. Because the making was the point.
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@KatS@chaosfem.tw 2026-03-28 11:45
@sinbad It isn't, and they're trying to kid themselves that it is a form of programming, no really it is, you just have to squint a bit and hold it at the right angle.