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Re:Show HN: LLMonster Rancher by throwaway12pol on Monday March 16, 2026 @09:23AM (#47398703)
Seems pretty fun. Can I use it without image generation? Also, I think hosting it on a website would get it closer to Monster Rancher, as MR was deterministic while this project is not, I can generate a different Roko Basilisk even if I use the same URL you did. The website could enforce deterministic generation by generating only once and caching the results.

Will try this skill out later.

Re:Show HN: LLMonster Rancher by alexwebb2 on Monday March 16, 2026 @09:38AM (#47398881)
Yeah, you could certainly tell it to skip the Gemini image gen step and replace with generated SVG art, or an existing image, or just stick a longer description there, whatever. It's flexible.

I thought about the deterministic generation aspect, but there's no "random seed" equivalent for frontier LLMs to my knowledge that would guarantee deterministic output (even temperature=0 is still nondeterministic).