non-determinism
The same prompt not producing the same output twice. Normal for these models, and the reason you review the diff rather than trusting a run that worked yesterday.
Where it comes up
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“search for test, they have all these different um test files which is great. Those tests can then be used to validate and verify that the migration was successful. The agent can take advantage of a good combination of determinism and non-de…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“So, models are are non-deterministic. What this means is that you can submit the same prompt to the same model, let's say, five different times, and you will probably get a similar sort of end result from each of those prompts. But the way…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“actually add screenshots. So let's go ahead and um uh provide some some feedback over here to the agent and saying that hey I don't see waterbot in my um in my start game. What's going on? So this is a this is a bug that we see and this is…”