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@cthos<\/a> @thomasfuchs<\/a> Temperature itself has nothing to do with determinism either. It all depends on the RNG used by the control system which picks tokens. If it's a regular seeded RNG then using the same prompt and same seed will produce identical responses.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/ap\/users\/116785764065582289\/statuses\/116974131887351296","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/ap\/users\/116785764065582289\/statuses\/116974131887351296","objectType":"note","content":"

@cthos<\/a> @thomasfuchs<\/a> Temperature itself has nothing to do with determinism either. It all depends on the RNG used by the control system which picks tokens. If it's a regular seeded RNG then using the same prompt and same seed will produce identical responses.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pixxl\/116974131887351296","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/ap\/users\/116785764065582289\/statuses\/116974122766405589","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pixxl\/116974122766405589"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12943227","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T14:27:13+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pixxl\/116974131887351296"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/ap\/users\/116785764065582289","displayName":"pixxl","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/theme\/gnusocialjp\/default-avatar-profile.png","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/png","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/theme\/gnusocialjp\/default-avatar-stream.png","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/png","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/theme\/gnusocialjp\/default-avatar-mini.png","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/png","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"410206"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/theme\/gnusocialjp\/default-avatar-profile.png","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/png","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pixxl","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"pixxl","displayName":"pixxl"}},"content":"

@cthos<\/a> @thomasfuchs<\/a> LLMs are deterministic, as they are just machine learning models. The way they're used (by the control system) could be non-deterministic. In the end it depends on the control system since they could work in any way, but using the same prompt and the same seed will always produce the same output with most systems. Arguably the control system (the thing that picks the next token from the distribution) is not part of the model itself.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/ap\/users\/116785764065582289\/statuses\/116974122766405589","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/ap\/users\/116785764065582289\/statuses\/116974122766405589","objectType":"note","content":"

@cthos<\/a> @thomasfuchs<\/a> LLMs are deterministic, as they are just machine learning models. The way they're used (by the control system) could be non-deterministic. In the end it depends on the control system since they could work in any way, but using the same prompt and the same seed will always produce the same output with most systems. Arguably the control system (the thing that picks the next token from the distribution) is not part of the model itself.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pixxl\/116974122766405589","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos\/statuses\/116970325833757439","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/@cthos\/116970325833757439"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12943226","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T14:27:13+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pixxl\/116974122766405589"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs","displayName":"Thomas \ud83d\udd2d\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-96-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-48-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-24-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"37337"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-96-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Maker of nokotime.com \u2022 I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) \u2022 #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats \u2022BLM. Ally. He\/Him.I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here.","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"thomasfuchs","displayName":"Thomas \ud83d\udd2d\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f","note":"Maker of nokotime.com \u2022 I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) \u2022 #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats \u2022BLM. Ally. He\/Him.I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here."}},"content":"

@cthos<\/a> @pixxl<\/a> My point is that randomness does not exist in the algorithms themselves, it's always an input. If you set it to 0 there's no randomness and the algorithm is strictly deterministic.<\/p>

There's also implementation details like possible race conditions or minuscule differences in measuring other inputs such as time-limiting parallel processing which could influence the outcome; those are essentially also random inputs.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116975417576535212","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116975417576535212","objectType":"note","content":"

@cthos<\/a> @pixxl<\/a> My point is that randomness does not exist in the algorithms themselves, it's always an input. If you set it to 0 there's no randomness and the algorithm is strictly deterministic.<\/p>

There's also implementation details like possible race conditions or minuscule differences in measuring other inputs such as time-limiting parallel processing which could influence the outcome; those are essentially also random inputs.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116975417576535212","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos\/statuses\/116975331451587034","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/@cthos\/116975331451587034"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/ap\/users\/116785764065582289"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12943229","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T14:27:11+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116975417576535212"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos","displayName":"cthos \ud83d\udc31","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/265233-original-tmp20260617152536.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/265233-96-20260617223812.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/265233-48-20260617223812.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/265233-24-20260617223812.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"265233"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/265233-96-20260617223812.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Hi! Professionally I'm a developer (unfortunately) and a fledgling writer (hooray). Personally I work on Tabletop RPG stuff.\u2029I love tinkering with new tech, futzing with project management stuff, playing video games (FFXIV, for one), cats, and learning (human\/cat) languages. I run authomnibus.com [he\/him]","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/@cthos","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"cthos","displayName":"cthos \ud83d\udc31","note":"Hi! Professionally I'm a developer (unfortunately) and a fledgling writer (hooray). Personally I work on Tabletop RPG stuff.\u2029I love tinkering with new tech, futzing with project management stuff, playing video games (FFXIV, for one), cats, and learning (human\/cat) languages. I run authomnibus.com [he\/him]"}},"content":"

@pixxl<\/a> @thomasfuchs<\/a> But it does, by weighting the probability of the token it will select at any given step towards 100% (at 0 T): https:\/\/techscribr.github.io\/posts\/llm-temperature\/<\/a><\/p>

But I don't think the average person who knows what an LLM is would agree that \"the LLM algorithm is just the bit that spits out vector weights\" when every implementation out there includes the sampler.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos\/statuses\/116975331451587034","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos\/statuses\/116975331451587034","objectType":"note","content":"

@pixxl<\/a> @thomasfuchs<\/a> But it does, by weighting the probability of the token it will select at any given step towards 100% (at 0 T): https:\/\/techscribr.github.io\/posts\/llm-temperature\/<\/a><\/p>

But I don't think the average person who knows what an LLM is would agree that \"the LLM algorithm is just the bit that spits out vector weights\" when every implementation out there includes the sampler.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/@cthos\/116975331451587034","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/ap\/users\/116785764065582289\/statuses\/116974131887351296","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pixxl\/116974131887351296"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/ap\/users\/116785764065582289"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12943228","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T14:27:11+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/@cthos\/116975331451587034"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs","displayName":"Thomas \ud83d\udd2d\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-96-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-48-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-24-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"37337"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-96-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Maker of nokotime.com \u2022 I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) \u2022 #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats \u2022BLM. Ally. He\/Him.I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here.","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"thomasfuchs","displayName":"Thomas \ud83d\udd2d\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f","note":"Maker of nokotime.com \u2022 I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) \u2022 #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats \u2022BLM. Ally. He\/Him.I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here."}},"content":"

@andybalaam<\/a> oh no you got one of those \"LLMs work just like brains\" replyguys as commenter lol<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970482000105716","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970482000105716","objectType":"note","content":"

@andybalaam<\/a> oh no you got one of those \"LLMs work just like brains\" replyguys as commenter lol<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970482000105716","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/andybalaam\/statuses\/116970440549552134","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@andybalaam\/116970440549552134"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/andybalaam"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12938684","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-23T17:32:01+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970482000105716"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/andybalaam","displayName":"Andy Balaam","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/160112-original-tmp20230814075440.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":345,"height":345},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/160112-96-20230814164434.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/160112-48-20230814164434.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/160112-24-20230814164434.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"160112"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/160112-96-20230814164434.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Makes coding videos, podcasts, free software. #fedi22","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@andybalaam","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"andybalaam","displayName":"Andy Balaam","note":"Makes coding videos, podcasts, free software. #fedi22"}},"content":"

@thomasfuchs<\/a> this has lots of overlap with what I wrote yesterday https:\/\/artificialworlds.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/22\/llms-produce-plausible-noise\/<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/andybalaam\/statuses\/116970440549552134","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/andybalaam\/statuses\/116970440549552134","objectType":"note","content":"

@thomasfuchs<\/a> this has lots of overlap with what I wrote yesterday https:\/\/artificialworlds.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/22\/llms-produce-plausible-noise\/<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@andybalaam\/116970440549552134","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970228392833704","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970228392833704"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12938683","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-23T17:32:01+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@andybalaam\/116970440549552134"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos","displayName":"cthos \ud83d\udc31","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/265233-original-tmp20260617152536.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/265233-96-20260617223812.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/265233-48-20260617223812.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/265233-24-20260617223812.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"265233"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/265233-96-20260617223812.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Hi! Professionally I'm a developer (unfortunately) and a fledgling writer (hooray). Personally I work on Tabletop RPG stuff.\u2029I love tinkering with new tech, futzing with project management stuff, playing video games (FFXIV, for one), cats, and learning (human\/cat) languages. I run authomnibus.com [he\/him]","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/@cthos","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"cthos","displayName":"cthos \ud83d\udc31","note":"Hi! Professionally I'm a developer (unfortunately) and a fledgling writer (hooray). Personally I work on Tabletop RPG stuff.\u2029I love tinkering with new tech, futzing with project management stuff, playing video games (FFXIV, for one), cats, and learning (human\/cat) languages. I run authomnibus.com [he\/him]"}},"content":"

@thomasfuchs<\/a> LLMs are stochastic (not deterministic) algorithms, they don't always produce the same next token for the same input (unless you set the temperature to 0).<\/p>

Edit: but the stochastic bit is at the very end where it uses the temperature setting as a weight to determine which of the most likely tokens to output based on randomness.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos\/statuses\/116970325833757439","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos\/statuses\/116970325833757439","objectType":"note","content":"

@thomasfuchs<\/a> LLMs are stochastic (not deterministic) algorithms, they don't always produce the same next token for the same input (unless you set the temperature to 0).<\/p>

Edit: but the stochastic bit is at the very end where it uses the temperature setting as a weight to determine which of the most likely tokens to output based on randomness.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/@cthos\/116970325833757439","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970228392833704","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970228392833704"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12938563","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-23T17:03:43+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/@cthos\/116970325833757439"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs","displayName":"Thomas \ud83d\udd2d\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-96-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-48-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-24-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"37337"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-96-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Maker of nokotime.com \u2022 I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) \u2022 #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats \u2022BLM. Ally. He\/Him.I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here.","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"thomasfuchs","displayName":"Thomas \ud83d\udd2d\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f","note":"Maker of nokotime.com \u2022 I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) \u2022 #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats \u2022BLM. Ally. He\/Him.I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here."}},"content":"

@cthos<\/a> hence I\u2019m mentioning randomness as input<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970362037010514","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970362037010514","objectType":"note","content":"

@cthos<\/a> hence I\u2019m mentioning randomness as input<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970362037010514","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos\/statuses\/116970325833757439","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/@cthos\/116970325833757439"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.cthos.dev\/users\/cthos"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12938565","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-23T17:03:42+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970362037010514"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/citizen428","displayName":"Michael Kohl \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\udded","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149069-original-tmp20230714031923.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":178,"height":178},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149069-96-20231107141848.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149069-48-20231107141848.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149069-24-20231107141848.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"149069"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149069-96-20231107141848.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Your friendly neighborhood anarcho-cynicalist.I do things with computers and occasionally succeed. Co-organizer of RubyConf Thailand, formerly also PyCon Thailand. \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9 in \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\udded since 2013. Previously also lived in \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3\/\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7\/\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9. Fan of 1990s pop culture. Spa\u00df am Ger\u00e4t.Most posts auto-delete after six months.#programming #RetroComputing #StarTrek #Babylon5 #TwinPeaks #OpenBSD #infosec #thailand #china #sports","url":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@citizen428","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"citizen428","displayName":"Michael Kohl \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\udded","note":"Your friendly neighborhood anarcho-cynicalist.I do things with computers and occasionally succeed. Co-organizer of RubyConf Thailand, formerly also PyCon Thailand. \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9 in \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\udded since 2013. Previously also lived in \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3\/\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7\/\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9. Fan of 1990s pop culture. Spa\u00df am Ger\u00e4t.Most posts auto-delete after six months.#programming #RetroComputing #StarTrek #Babylon5 #TwinPeaks #OpenBSD #infosec #thailand #china #sports"}},"content":"

@thomasfuchs<\/a> It's insane that the second Weizenbaum quote is 50 years old! If you leave off the citation, one could easily imagine this being written as a reaction to LLMs.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/citizen428\/statuses\/116970268432685910","object":{"id":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/citizen428\/statuses\/116970268432685910","objectType":"note","content":"

@thomasfuchs<\/a> It's insane that the second Weizenbaum quote is 50 years old! If you leave off the citation, one could easily imagine this being written as a reaction to LLMs.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@citizen428\/116970268432685910","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970228392833704","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970228392833704"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12938463","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-23T16:38:28+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@citizen428\/116970268432685910"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs","displayName":"Thomas \ud83d\udd2d\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-96-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-48-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-24-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"37337"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-96-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Maker of nokotime.com \u2022 I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) \u2022 #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats \u2022BLM. Ally. He\/Him.I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here.","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"thomasfuchs","displayName":"Thomas \ud83d\udd2d\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f","note":"Maker of nokotime.com \u2022 I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) \u2022 #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats \u2022BLM. Ally. He\/Him.I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here."}},"content":"

@citizen428<\/a> the guy was so far ahead it's not even funny :)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970271431493069","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970271431493069","objectType":"note","content":"

@citizen428<\/a> the guy was so far ahead it's not even funny :)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970271431493069","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/citizen428\/statuses\/116970268432685910","url":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@citizen428\/116970268432685910"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/citizen428"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12938464","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-23T16:38:26+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970271431493069"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs","displayName":"Thomas \ud83d\udd2d\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-96-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-48-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-24-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"37337"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/37337-96-20230103232337.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Maker of nokotime.com \u2022 I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) \u2022 #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats \u2022BLM. Ally. He\/Him.I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here.","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"thomasfuchs","displayName":"Thomas \ud83d\udd2d\ud83d\udd79\ufe0f","note":"Maker of nokotime.com \u2022 I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) \u2022 #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats \u2022BLM. Ally. He\/Him.I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here."}},"content":"

I wrote about how LLMs don't know how to make software, and even got to quote Weizenbaum. Twice!<\/p>

https:\/\/mir.aculo.us\/do-llms-know-how-to-make-software-no\/<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-27:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970228392833704","object":{"id":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/users\/thomasfuchs\/statuses\/116970228392833704","objectType":"note","content":"

I wrote about how LLMs don't know how to make software, and even got to quote Weizenbaum. Twice!<\/p>

https:\/\/mir.aculo.us\/do-llms-know-how-to-make-software-no\/<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970228392833704","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-23:objectType=thread:nonce=587a317f7dc337fa","notice_info":{"local_id":"12938398","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-23T16:27:30+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@thomasfuchs\/116970228392833704"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6571907","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}