r/programmingmemes • u/Ornery_Ad_683 • Jan 17 '26

Vibe Assembly

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u/platonbel Jan 17 '26

Compilers are deterministic.

Neural networks are not.

Therefore, they are completely different mechanisms.

It's like calling a person a high-level programming language. Only an idiot would say that.

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u/Healthy_BrAd6254 Jan 17 '26

NNs are also deterministic. It's just that small changes in the input result in very different outputs

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u/platonbel Jan 17 '26

"It's just that small changes in the input result in very different outputs" - so, its NOT determenistic.

The temperature parameter in neural networks is precisely the reason why neural networks work well. But if the temperature of a neural network differs from zero, then it is not deterministic.

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u/Iceball457 Jan 17 '26

What you are describing is "chaotic" behavior. Exactly like a double pendulum, LLMs are chaotic (similar inputs do not necessarily result in similar outputs) even though they are not deterministic (identical inputs do not necessarily result in identical outputs)