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Who wants a button that has indeterministic actions?
by iLoveOncall 11mo ago
Who wants a button that has indeterministic actions?
- seanhunter 11mo agoThe popularity of slot machines suggests there is a market
- phacker007 11mo agoCalling it... Vibe clicking
- isoprophlex 11mo ago[flagged]
- stingraycharles 11mo agoUnless the MCP server itself has an LLM call inside of it (rare), the MCP server is pretty deterministic. It’s the AI that invokes it that’s actually indeterministic, but the user is already using that.
- notpachet 11mo ago> pretty deterministic This is an oxymoron.
- stingraycharles 11mo agoI meant “pretty” as in, using a search engine is pretty deterministic, any REST API is deterministic. MCP servers’ tools are literally just function calls. It’s the LLM MCP client that’s not deterministic, not the MCP server.
- hobofan 11mo agoNo it's not. In the real world, where it is (at least in our current state of overall programming language tooling, and the existence of physics) intractable to prove all eventualities and absence of side-effects of executed code, determinism is indeed a spectrum. If we want to be specific here, I would say the "pretty deterministic" is equal to "as deterministic as your typical non-LLM REST API call", which still spans a big range of determinism.
- mercury24aug 11mo agoThis is a very strict definition of MCP. An agent (with LLM call inside) can be an MCP. Event a UI component can be an MCP.
- degamad 11mo ago> button that has indeterministic actions google.com (1998-present) [I'm feeling lucky]
- mercury24aug 11mo agoAI fills in a form, and you want to adjust the form before clicking submit. How often do you have to adjust AI's answer vs accepting it as is