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> pretty deterministic This is an oxymoron.

• stingraycharles 11mo ago
  I 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 ago
  No 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.