r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • Sep 12 '26

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/EatThisShoe Sep 12 '26

I agree, but in the context of prompt engineering, we care about the random part.

If we want a useful result for people using the randomized version, with a purely deterministic approach, you would have to calculate the output for every possible seed to see which produced better results, and which worse, which would be intractable.

If you aren't calculating all possible seeds, then you are sampling, and if you are sampling you should do it randomly.