Post #1944168
2026-03-04 13:25 UTC
@nicuveo @jcoglan eh, indeed :) The conflit between stochastic GenAIs interfacing with deterministic programming (and operating on data-as-facts) is definitely there. A non-deterministic compiler isn't very useful.
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@phairupegiont@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 14:29
@pmorinerie @nicuveo @jcoglan Many subtle points can make compilers non-deterministic in practice. Randomness is a red herring, the real advantage of compilers is the guarantees about run time semantics. I see many mocking llm as stochastic parrots, but you know what else is non-deterministic? Humans :)