Maybe Non-Deterministic Behavior is What We Want When Writing Code

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:28:00 -0700

I had always seen the non-deterministic behavior of LLM’s as the shortcoming with code generation, but this comment really had me realizing that doing things incorrectly and unconventionally is how you experiment and come up with new ways to build things

Non-deterministic behavior is not only the path for innovation, but it is also how nature works. Maybe the machines will use this natural non-deterministic nature of building to create software we couldn’t imagine in our tightly controlled box of deterministic code writing.

Llm on Brett Smith

Maybe Non-Deterministic Behavior is What We Want When Writing Code