Best attempts at making an agent deterministic as possible.
Summary
The article discusses various techniques to make LLM-powered agents more deterministic, such as golden sets, guardrails, consensus mechanisms, regression tests, coded logic, and hyperparameter tuning, and asks for additional successful methods.
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