[troupo]

> But would these tools lose their magic if the results became completely deterministic?

No. They would become extremely useful and more magical. Because instead of weird incantations and shamanic rituals of "just one more .rules file, bro, I swear" you could create useful reproducible working tools.

[leptons]

Except an LLM is not and never will be deterministic, by its very design that is not how it operates. It would need to be a fundamentally different tech from the ground up.

[troupo]

Exactly :)