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Determinism Is a Feature

We spent seventy years building machines that do exactly the same thing every time. It took about three years of AI hype to start describing that property as a limitation.

  • Determinism enables reproducibility in production systems.
  • Reproducible bugs are half-finished, facilitating debugging.
  • Deterministic systems maintain the purpose of test suites.

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