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globular-toast 12 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The current state of LLM-driven development

Neither are slot machines. But there is a random element and that is more than enough to keep people hooked.

Pseudo-random number generators remain one of the most amazing things in computing IMO. Knuth volume 2. One of my favourite books.

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