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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development

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416 points floverfelt | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 18:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.262s | source
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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!

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1. positron26 ◴[29 Aug 25 02:24 UTC] No.45059375[source]▶
It's uncertainty, not non-determinism. I don't design a rocket with no idea about the chain of events. I have inscrutable uncertainty everywhere, from manufacture to flight.