Which tangentially brings up another analogy: many high level languages don’t compile directly to assembly but to an intermediate language first (LLVM). We don’t read the LLVM code ourselves.

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rlander 7 hours ago | parent [-]

But LLVM compilation is deterministic. LLM code gen isn’t.

	▲	pjmlp 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Only when not used alongside PGO data or as a JIT, as its inputs are not deterministic in first place.