[tqi]

I think you'd expect them to be similar, but not exactly the same?

This feels like the original author is over anthropomorphizing LLMs, and expecting them to interpret prompts the way humans would, but it seems obvious that changing the prompt results in a slightly different context window, which results in a slightly different response distribution? Similarly, if you changed whether the bit about time of year was at the beginning or the end of the prompt, I would expect a statistically different distribution of response lengths.