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Taming Non-Determinism in Agent Tests

Same input, different output, and your CI is red on Tuesdays. The fix is layering: deterministic tests where you can, statistics where you must.

Difficulty
Easy
Format
Quiz
Points
100
Estimate
9 min

// MISSION BRIEF

Your Mission

Agent test suites fail for a special reason: the system under test is allowed to vary. The cure is not despair, it is layering: make the deterministic parts deterministic, and treat the stochastic parts statistically. This quiz draws that line.

Scoring: equal weight per question.

// FIRST CONTACT

Battle teaser

Does temperature=0 make an LLM app's outputs fully deterministic?

  1. ATemperature has no effect at all
  2. BYes, but only on GPUs
  3. CYes, bit-identical forever
  4. DNo: it reduces sampling variance, but provider model updates and backend numerics can still shift outputs. Treat live-model behavior as stochastic
Answers, scoring, hints, and the full battle stay sealed.

// SKILL TAGS

agenticnon-determinismflakinesstest-strategy