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I Spent Two Years Building the Median — Hariprasad Sudharshan

AI Engineer · Oct 14, 2026 · Engineering Insights

Traditional deterministic software runs civilization; AI now introduces a probabilistic paradigm shift.

“Is software deterministic or probabilistic—that is the question.”

Speaker Hariprasad Sudharshan argues that invisible, deterministic software—not AI—is what actually runs the modern world, from pacemakers to payment systems. The talk frames this as historical context before pivoting to how AI introduces probabilistic, non-deterministic systems into that stack. The content is cut off before the substantive AI argument lands, significantly limiting its signal value.

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