David Heinemeier Hansson
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 26 Aug
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Exactly spot on.
And this is the fundamental misunderstanding that a lot of programmers have of AI, is that they wish it was deterministic.
No, no, no.
Temperature is the most beautiful part of the AI setup.
The fact that it is not deterministic, the fact that creativity requires little tweaks in the road.
that the human brain, if it was perfectly deterministic, would not be the creative brain that it is.
And the main charge against AI, both it's funny, it it's a contradiction.
There's both the charge that it's not deterministic and therefore bad, and also that it is not creative.
I it's one or the other, bro.
Either it's it's uh non deterministic and therefore creative, therefore to some degree random
Or it's um
Or it's not creative.
Mm-hmm.
So we we can both of those uh charges can't be true at the same time.
And I have fully come to embrace the fact that the same prompt won't produce the same response every time.
You can't step at the same river twice and it is the most beautiful part of the whole interaction.
It's what makes it so human.
In fact, this is one of the things I've been thinking about in my own sort of meta-analysis, is just how much my own personal brain works like next time.
Token prediction.
I sit down to write an essay.
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