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A comment on Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking. Parent comment

Re:Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking by gmueckl on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:08PM (#46815860)
No, this isn't right. There are totally legitimate use cases for PRNGs as sources of random number sequences following a certain probability distribution where freezing the seed and getting reproducibility is actually required.
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Re:Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking by jmalicki on Thursday January 29, 2026 @04:23PM (#46816812)
And for a complicated concurrent system you can also replay the exact timings and orderings as well!
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Re:Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking by gmueckl on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:35AM (#46822359)
That's completely different from PRNGs. I don't understand why you think those things belong together.
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