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What If Talking to Ducks Actually Makes Sense? | AI Prompt Engineering for Developers

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First video on writing code with LLMs I’ve seen that is actually sensible, is well aware of limitations of LLMs, and gives solid advice.

Feb 5 at 9:52amWeb
Show threadJackFeb 5

The only difference is that the duck doesn’t consume the water of a small county and more electric than needed to put a man on the moon.

Also ducks aren’t easily prompted to generate CP.

Show threadeinkornFeb 5
I prefer talking to my rubber ducky because I can tell they are a true professional. They are not giving you any feedback unless they are absolutly certain it works.
Show threadeleijeepFeb 5
I wouldn’t give my rubber duck access to my system and then cry on twitter when he deletes my filesystem.
Show threadSpacehooksFeb 5
Please give me link!
Show threadeleijeepFeb 5

These are just the first two I could find, but there are plenty of similar stories that have passed by.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident/

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part

Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore

: AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things

The Register
Show threadSpacehooksFeb 5
Can’t wait to have a laugh in the office about this tomorrow
Show threadDarkcoffeeFeb 5
Prompt engineer is like saying I own a roller to paint walls, and I am a painter
Show threadnastyyboiFeb 5
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