> 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!
We're introducing chaos monkeys, not just variability.
> Process engineers for example have to account for human error rates. [...] Designing systems to detect these errors (which are highly probabilistic!)
> Likewise even for regular mechanical engineers, there are probabilistic variances in manufacturing tolerances.
I read them as relatively confined, thus probabilistic. When a human pushes the wrong button, an elephant isn't raining from the sky. Same way tolerances are bounded.
When requesting a JSON array from an LLM, it could as well decide this time that JSON is a mythological Greek fighter.