Taming non-determinism: from logic gates to LLMs

Or: how engineering keeps turning chaos into reliable computation. And why agentic AI still hasn't solved this. There's a pattern that repeats across the entire history of computing: we take something fundamentally non-deterministic and engineer enough layers on top of it until it behaves deterministically. Logic gates did it. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) replicated it at some level. LLMs are…