Here is the fact that should anchor every serious conversation about agentic systems, and that most vendor decks quietly skip: a large language model is non-deterministic. Send it the same prompt twice and you can get two different answers. Not wildly different, usually — but different. Different word choices, different structure, occasionally a different decision. The output is sampled from a probability distribution, and a sample is, by definition, not a guarantee.

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