Alea iacta non est: rerolling the LLM dice
llm Alea iacta non est: rerolling the LLM dice Roland Szabo 18 Sep 2026 — 5 min read Share Like everyone else, I talk a lot to various LLMs. And sometimes I wonder how consistent their answers are. I know that LLMs are non-deterministic, but there's a difference between giving wildly different answers and saying the same thing with different words.
- ▪llm Alea iacta non est: rerolling the LLM dice Roland Szabo 18 Sep 2026 — 5 min read Share Like everyone else, I talk a lot to various LLMs.
- ▪And sometimes I wonder how consistent their answers are.
- ▪I know that LLMs are non-deterministic, but there's a difference between giving wildly different answers and saying the same thing with different words.
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llm Alea iacta non est: rerolling the LLM dice Roland Szabo 18 Sep 2026 — 5 min read Share Like everyone else, I talk a lot to various LLMs. And sometimes I wonder how consistent their answers are. I know that LLMs are non-deterministic, but there's a difference between giving wildly different answers and saying the same thing with different words. Sometimes, this is because there are genuinely multiple valid answers, but at other times, the question is underspecified and then the LLM is forced to make guesses as to how to answer.For example, sometimes I point it towards a certain framework (eg: Demartini Value Determination Framework) and ask it to walk me through it one question at a time.
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