[igravious]

They may not be wrong per se but that argument is essentially a strawman argument.

If these tools are non-deterministic then how did someone at Anthropic spend the equivalent of $20,000 of Anthropic compute and end up with a C compiler that can compile the Linux kernel (one of the largest bodies of C code out there).

There is clearly something that completely missies the point about the but-muh-non-determinism argument. See my direct response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936586

You'll notice this objection comes up each time a "OpenClaw changed my life" or conversely "Agentic Coding ain't it fam" article swings by.

[blks]

To be frank, the C compilers source code were probably multiply times in its learning material, it just had to translate to Rust.

This aside, one success story doesn’t mean much, doesn’t even touch determinism question. Anthropic with every ad like this should have posted all the prompts they used.