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ares623 ◴[28 Aug 25 19:56 UTC] 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!

AaronAPU ◴[28 Aug 25 20:40 UTC] No.45056797[source]▶

It was forward when Newton discovered the beautiful simple determinism of physics.

Was it going backwards when the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics emerged?

1. BlueTemplar ◴[28 Aug 25 21:29 UTC] No.45057253[source]▶

Hopefully even Newton already had some awareness of "deterministic chaos" (or whatever terms they would have used back then) ?

And on the side hand, no transistors without quantum mechanics.

Some thoughts on LLMs and software development