Temperature 0 Is Not Always the Best for Determinism
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Temperature 0 Is Not Always the Best for Determinism

April 6, 2026
Setting temperature=0 reduces randomness but doesn't guarantee identical outputs across API calls - models can still vary due to sampling hardware differences. For true reproducibility, use temperature=0 AND set a fixed seed parameter (available in OpenAI and some other APIs).
Category: Prompt Engineering
Difficulty:intermediate

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