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It's only dead to those who are ignorant to what it takes to build and run real systems that don't tip over all the time (or leak data, embroil you in extortion, etc). That will piss some people off but it's worth considering if you don't want to perma-railroad yourself long-term. Many seem to be so blinded by the glitz, glamour, and dollar signs that they don't realize they're actively destroying their future prospects/reputation by getting all emo about a non-deterministic printer.

Valuable? Yep. World changing? Absolutely. The domain of people who haven't the slightest clue what they're doing? Not unless you enjoy lighting money on fire.



> non-deterministic printer.

I interpret non-deterministic here as “an LLM will not produce the same output on the same input.” This is a) not true and b) not actually a problem.

a) LLMs are functions and appearances otherwise are due to how we use them

b) lots of traditional technologies which have none of the problems of LLMs are non-deterministic. E.g., symbolic non-deterministic algorithms.

Non-determinism isn’t the problem with LLMs. The problem is that there is no formal relationship between the input and output.




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