[tezza]

when you make a program that has a random seed, many LLMs choose

   42

as the seed value rather than zero. A nice nod to Hitchhikers’

[czhu12]

Probably because that’s what programmers do, present in the LLM training data? I certainly remember setting a 42 seed in some of my projects

[electroglyph]

it's also a very common "favorite number" for them

[groutlloyd]

it's the favorite because it's 6*7, that's why