> However, there is absolutely nothing stopping an LLM from "deciding" tomorrow that a fix it built a week ago is no longer real, because not only has that fix left its context, but also the bug was not obvious.

Yeah, and we've never had deterministic tools like GCC suddenly fuck up commonly-relied-on undefined behavior between releases. Sure.

I get what you're saying, but again, to the vast majority of devs, none of that shit matters. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is a different discussion.