What Steve Yegge thinks about LLMs

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Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.

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1. 11 Mar 2026

   Our readingAI's business results are lagging because organisations have a low tolerance for non-determinism, not because the models are not good enough.

   Their wordsMy my feeling is that probably people have a low tolerance for non-determinism. And these things are fundamentally non-deterministic. So, they can't just go replace customer call center software because they they could be wrong.

   ↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 18th of 25 in this recording