Building valuable Deterministic products in a Probabilistic world
2025-11-07
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John Carney
(PDFTA)
For the first time in computing history the paradigm of designing applications is following a probabilistic approach rather than a deterministic approach. Large language models have generated huge amounts of excitement, with investors, management, and engineers who are using them in product development. However both according to peer reviewed studies, and anecdotal observations, it has proven difficult to translate this optimism into business value.