Temperature 0 and a fixed seed still aren't deterministic on Ollama — I measured how much my eval numbers move between two identical runs
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I maintain a local-first CLI that asks an Ollama model to rate how demanding a codebase's specs are, and it has a regression corpus of 18 projects with expected profiles. I had assumed that pinning temperature to 0 and fixing the seed made the whole thing reproducible, and a change to my retry logi…
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Temperature 0 and a fixed seed still aren't deterministic on Ollama — I measured how much my eval numbers move between two identical runs
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