It’s not clear to me why people believe determinism has some special property.

You still don't get it.

Think about the act of writing with a pen.

Now think about what a typewriter does in that context.

Now think about what an LLM does in that context.

Can you reason about how those are vastly different tools within the context of writing or communication, so much so that the comparison doesn't actually make any sense?

Hint: it has nothing to do with determinism. It has to do with the nature of the work itself and the role of the person doing it.

As an aside, this whole exchange really is just a perfect encapsulation of the outcome-focused versus process-focused individual.

The outcome-focused person sees words in a document and whether an LLM produced them or a human typed them is a distinction without a difference.

The process-focused person is utterly baffled that anyone could think those are in any way equivalent.

When you read the code thats been generated and submit it as a PR it becomes deterministic