Markdown can never guarantee deterministic agent operations. It is an influence ...

nyc_data_geek · 2026-09-22T16:19:07 1790093947

99 percent of the time it works every time

flowardnut · 2026-09-22T16:46:59 1790095619

1% of the time it launches nukes and tries to destroy humanity

senko · 2026-09-22T17:08:24 1790096904

How about just not connecting it to nukes, then?

toomuchtodo · 2026-09-22T17:23:55 1790097835

fweimer · 2026-09-22T17:17:45 1790097465

I'm pretty sure people said this about the early COBOL compilers, too. They were buggy, the API had terrible uptime, and was slow to respond.

Overall, this whole approach to programming seems to align really well with the original premise of COBOL. I wonder when people will start putting

# Identification Division

into their Markdown files.

fg137 · 2026-09-22T17:56:45 1790099805

I'm pretty sure COBOL compiler bugs were deterministic.

fweimer · 2026-09-22T18:25:17 1790101517

When emulated on today's hardware. But the hardware actually available at the time was pretty unreliable by modern standards, I think.

charcircuit · 2026-09-22T18:42:35 1790102555

LLMs are technically deterministic too.

archagon · 2026-09-22T19:08:49 1790104129

Repeat after me: AI is not an abstraction.

vanuatu · 2026-09-22T17:03:00 1790096580

you use evals to measure nondeterministic behavior and abstract deterministic behavior behind tools