CS spent 70 years killing nondeterminism; in 2026 we set temperature=0.8
korymath · x · 2026-11-09
A widely relatable observation: from 1950 to 2022, computer science was about eliminating nondeterminism; by 2026, debugging LLM-related code means setting temperature=0.8 to see if the "bug vibes" mellow out — and if not, asking the computer to try something random. A wry take on how engineers now routinely negotiate with randomness in the AI era.
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