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Temperature and seed values are two often-overlooked LLM parameters that can cause distinct failure modes in agentic loops. Low temperature leads to deterministic loop failure where agents get stuck repeating the same failed actions, while high temperature causes reasoning drift and hallucinations. Fixed seed values in production are particularly dangerous as they lock agents into the same failing reasoning path on every retry. Best practices include dynamically adjusting temperature and seed during recovery attempts, and using local models like Ollama to cost-effectively stress-test diverse parameter combinations before deployment.

Why Agents Fail: The Role of Seed Values and Temperature in Agentic Loops

Temperature: “Reasoning Drift” Vs. “Deterministic Loop”

Best Practices For Resilient And Cost-Effective Loops