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svieira | 22 days ago

Note that the prompt wasn't fed to another LLM, but to the same one. "I wrote a program in C and gave it to GCC. Then I gave the same program to GCC again and I got a different result" would be more like it.

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hackyhacky|22 days ago

> Then I gave the same program to GCC again and I got a different result" would be more like it.

This is a completely realistic scenario, given variance between compiler output based on optimization level, target architecture, and version.

Sure, LLMs are non-deterministic, but that doesn't matter if you never look at the code.

Retric|22 days ago

Optimization level, target architecture, etc are just information fed to the compiler. If it’s still nondeterministic with everything kept the same your compiler is broken.