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Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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Um... yes. Matrix multiplication is deterministic, there's nothing non-deterministic about an LLM, unless you artificially add randomness to them, like randomly selecting 1 of the top N ranked tokens.