Re:Karpathy on Programming
by viraptor on Monday December 29, 2025 @11:52PM
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The library is deterministic, but looking for the library isn't. In the same way that generating code is not deterministic, but the generated code normally is.
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Re:Karpathy on Programming
by Night_Thastus on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @12:56PM
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I...guess? But once you know of a good library for problem X, you don't need to look for it anymore. I guess if you have a bunch of developers and 0 control over what they do, and they're free to drag in additional dependencies willy-nilly, then yes, that part isn't deterministic? But that's a much bigger problem than anything library-related...