New use for 'stochastic parrots': engineers mad about GPU nondeterminism at temperature 0
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-22
An AI-circle joke repurposing 'stochastic parrots' — the classic critique of LLMs — to describe engineers who are really mad about GPU nondeterminism at temperature = 0. It lands because temp-0 nondeterminism is a genuine, well-known annoyance in inference engineering.
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