With all of the talk about "LLMs are non deterministic" I am trying to build my own tool (at this exact moment, since I seem to have gotten really good at this) which does some of what these OpenClaw/Clawdbots do for people, but instead of having these LLMs/agents handle everything I am trying to do as much of it as pure deterministic code as possible. I test things once, like daily automations, and they will repeat that way the next scheduled date/time. Also, anytime AI models are used, at first I am approving/analyzing a docker/podman/microVM container to make sure it is only EXACTLY what it needs for a job, and then that is saved for future. I approve it once, and then it is there for future use.

Also I happen to know a few useful things, from a year + of working with all of these models, tools, daily for usually at least 8..12... 15 hours a day (I cannot stop, I love it, and I am good at it). I just noticed someone finally posted what I figured out a year ago - when you do need the help of a LLM, and you need it/want it to be as safe and as deterministic as it can be - Use the biggest, best, smartest models for the "brains" but for ALL the agentic stuff, the tool use, the MCP servers, etc, use a smaller model. Current best models for that - MinimaxM2.5, Gemini 3.1 Flash (use pro for planning, fixing, problem solving, all the difficult stuff, but definitely use the smaller Flash for the agentic tool use) Its weird that I have known this for so long and it has barely caught on yet.. I did have some AI guides that went viral on HN months back wuu73. org/aiguide or /aicp (free tool, well loved) I should write more about all this stuff i've figured out so I am not dumping paragraphs on so many posts over and over like this.. if my tool ends up useful I put it on my site somewhere in the AI tools sections if you want to put your email in the RSS thing, I will try to put anything useful on there/update RSS