Research
Why This Series Can Never Be Finished
October 19, 2025
What Just Happened
I was working on an article about AI agent nondeterminism. The core thesis: AI agents produce unpredictable outputs because they’re probabilistic systems.
One of my examples:
When I ask Claude Code to run tests, I might get:
uv run pytest(correct)pytest(wrong, bypasses environment)python3 -m pytest(wrong, bypasses uv)
Same context. Same documentation. Same conversation history. Different command each time.
Hours after writing that section, I caught the problem: