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I thought Claude still has a problem generating the same output for the same input? That you can't just rewind and rerun and get to the same point again.

>>eikenb+(OP)
> I thought Claude still has a problem generating the same output for the same input?

I haven't used Anthropic's models/software in a long time (months, basically forever in AI ecosystem), so don't know exactly how it works now.

But last time I used Claude, you could edit the first message, and then re-generate the assistants next message based on your edit. Most of the LLM interfaces has one or another way of doing this, I can't imagine they got rid of that feature.

What I'm suggesting isn't to use the exact same input (the first message), but rather change it so you remove the chances of something incorrect happening later after that.

>>eikenb+(OP)
> can't just rewind and rerun and get to the same point again

Why would you want to? The whole point of a retry is that your previous conversation attempt went poorly.

>>throwa+2k
Good engineering? You want automated steps to be repeatable so you know your tweak to the previous conversation have the effect you desire. Though using an AI for coding is probably closer in spirit the the art of writing code than the engineering of writing code and art is pretty much unrepeatable by definition.

>>eikenb+iL
Fair enough. Use the respective API or Google Gemini which will let you set temperature to zero resulting in deterministic output barring FP errors accumulating when paired with non-standard GPU/TPU configurations. Likely not to differ by much in the vast majority of cases though.