Determinism, as meaning every choice is hard-coded, sounds very silly to me, and I don't see many people arguing for it.

I think my interpretation is still in line with the thinking behind determinism. That, the agency people feel in their choices is a farce, and really they are selecting from a limited set of options defined by the way their mind works. And that, in most cases, they will make predictable choices, whilst feeling they are choosing freely.

This is for sure probabilistic but I feel it keeps in line with the deterministic thinking that free choice is a farce