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Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer (pbxscience.com)
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[–] 8uurg@lemmy.world 18 points 4 hours ago

An LLM is not inherently non-deterministic though - if you don't randomly sample and instead have a fixed rule (which is what the recent fingerprint embedding approach does), if applied in all cases the output is deterministic, as the neural net at its core is deterministic function. A lot of the randomness beyond that is due to optimizations [source].

LLMs are however unreliable at 'compiling'. Whether or not it will be able to complete the requested task (translate human language into code) correctly it not guaranteed - at least nowhere near the compilers we use.