A wild number of people who present themselves as knowledgeable or even experts on the subject either have no idea or worse, do not believe that it is possible

A wild number of people who present themselves as knowledgeable or even experts on the subject either have no idea or worse, do not believe that it is possible to ie set a static seed value and send the same prompt across multiple fresh contexts and get the same result* It's genuinely a little concerning. It does not help that many of them are gaslighting themselves into thinking these things are benchmark crushing elite hackers by running effectively unsecured, unfiltered, unlogged production environments. *Obviously this also means a temperature of >0 to avoid the greedy trap, the same generation params, on the same software, hardware, drivers etc etc