two engineers implementing the same task are not-deterministic
yet nobody complained about this
in fact engineers appreciate that, "we are not replaceable code monkeys cogs in the machine as management would like"
yet nobody complained about this
in fact engineers appreciate that, "we are not replaceable code monkeys cogs in the machine as management would like"
You could say that all those things are ultimately dependent on an input and given the same input will always finish with the same result. And that would be a fair assertion. But once you start thinking that way then even LLMs are 100% deterministic. Fundamentally, computers can only operate deterministically. We only sometimes think of them as being non-deterministic because we are willing to ignore some inputs.