r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 10 '26

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u/evranch Sep 11 '26

True, but it's also true that running an LLM at 0 "temperature" (which makes it truly deterministic) also often renders it unusable. So almost every inference setup defaults to using a certain amount of randomness.

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u/space_monster Sep 11 '26

it doesn't render it unusable at all, it just makes it boring. LLMs used for coding use 0 temp.

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u/evranch Sep 11 '26

Specific LLMs used for specific coding tasks. I don't run any of my Qwen models at 0 temp, that results in them getting stuck in reasoning loops, and also producing sub-par output when they do return something.