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Re:Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking by joquarky on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:23PM (#46819456)
Temperature can't be literally zero, or it creates a divide by zero error.

When people say zero, it is shorthand for “as deterministic as this system allows”, but it's still not completely deterministic.

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Re:Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking by forgotTheLast on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:22PM (#46820172)
Zero temp just uses argmax, which is what softmax approaches if you take the limit of T to zero anyway. So it could very well be deterministic.
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