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ares623 ◴[] No.45056350[source]
> Other forms of engineering have to take into account the variability of the world.

> Maybe LLMs mark the point where we join our engineering peers in a world on non-determinism.

Those other forms of engineering have no choice due to the nature of what they are engineering.

Software engineers already have a way to introduce determinism into the systems they build! We’re going backwards!

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tptacek ◴[] No.45056669[source]
'potatolicious says we're going forwards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44978319
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