Tim Farley
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Lo and behold
Hdunagan
Captain ButtonMy dad did this for Fortran programming back in the 1960s a lot cheaper ...
(He called it "The Rubber Dummy Theory" but the common term is "Rubber Duck Debugging.")
Hot Dog Water, roiling
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin ๐ฆ
Andrew Singleton
qwazix
Reiner Jung ๐ฌ๐ฑ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ช๐บ@theogrin @beyondmachines1 got my advanced debugging and developing assistent at a STAF conference in 2014 at York University.
yetzt@beyondmachines1 the fabled planet killing rubber duck.
Bill
stuxโก๏ธ
eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw)@beyondmachines1 I'm going to sell them tokens to my new "low emissions agentic assistant".
@beyondmachines1 Mock all you want, and a bit of it is earned.
Thing is. People don't naturally spend the energy to do deep thinking until they either have reason or structure. Using GPT as a rubber duck caused them to decide to spend the calories and 'oh wait. I didn't have to actually ask. solved it.'
WTL@beyondmachines1 @renata ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฆ๐ป
Mulbox@beyondmachines1 ๐is this meta cognition? ๐ฆ
Richard W. Woodley ๐จ๐ฆ๐น๐ดโโ๏ธI do that too. i just leave out the ChatGPT part.
Kingfish1776
Ludwig Vielfrass@beyondmachines1 It's almost like clearly thinking about how to solve a problem is the hardest part!
Octavia Con Amore 
Succubard's Library@beyondmachines1 @ShaulaEvans just imagine how many rubber duckies they could have bought with the hundreds of billions dumped down the genAI sinkhole 
Eatsbluecrayon@OctaviaConAmore @beyondmachines1 @ShaulaEvans Just get them for free from the Giant Plastic Patch in the Pacific! ๐
So twice as effective as genAI!
So twice as effective as genAI!
AverageJoe@beyondmachines1 "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved." - Charles Kettering
C.Suthorn 
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Ausser es ist ein Poitiker, der das Problem gut beschreibt.
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Jon@beyondmachines1 presaged in "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" (1958).
The Turtle@beyondmachines1 in other words, "AI is often like a shitty IT contractor, but you have to realize the point at which explaining it takes more time and effort than just doing it yourself."
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Happened to me today
Happened to me today
Andrew C. Dingman@beyondmachines1 so, the virtue of AI is that it can function as a shockingly expensive rubber duck?
I know that for now it's mostly paid for by someone else, but I've gotten several actual rubber ducks free at conferences.
Light@acdingman
They didn't actually send the prompt, so I wouldn't exactly call that expensive.
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They didn't actually send the prompt, so I wouldn't exactly call that expensive.
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Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE ๐ถ@beyondmachines1 @briankrebs
You know, instead of boiling the planet, they could just use a Rubber Duck!
You know, instead of boiling the planet, they could just use a Rubber Duck!
48kRAM but with parity@beyondmachines1 Be right back, setting up rubberduck.ai real quick
(It's just a text box for you to start writing your "prompt")
Author-ized L.J.
jimkennedy@48kRAM @beyondmachines1 Amazingly, that url can be yours for the low, low price of $19,800 from those lovely people at godaddy.
Brains - The original quantum computer.
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@beyondmachines1 I LOL and behold ๐
Flux@beyondmachines1 I'm surprised no one has mentioned manual breathing to them, they probably will pass out when that happens.
Rifter@beyondmachines1 AI: the "greatest" rubber duck of our generation
WulfyโSpeaker to the machines"Rubber Ducky you're the one..."
Sesame Street: Ernie and his Rubber Duckie
VessOnSecurity@beyondmachines1 There's a University in the US (forgot which one), where the tech support people at the computing center (this was a time of mainframes, no PCs yet) had a stuffed bear at a prominent place. The students coming with a help request were required to explain their problem to the stuffed bear first. Only if they didn't realize how to solve it as a result, they were allowed to bother a human.
mr. foostang ๐จ๐ฆ @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Variations of that old chestnut abound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
arrakeen_urbanite@mrfoostang @bontchev @relay @beyondmachines1 For me, itโs whenever I am getting frustrated and start to compose an email to describe the problem to a coworker. I average about 3 sentences in before I realize thereโs some detail I still need to check
@[email protected] @[email protected] @mrfoostang @[email protected] However it happens, itโs a totally legit debugging technique ๐
Martin Vermeer FCD@mrfoostang @arrakeen_urbanite @[email protected] @[email protected] Also, as always, you don't ever learn a subject as thoroughly as by teaching it.
gunstick@beyondmachines1 it is called rubber duck debugging, but in the background the duck is killing the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
@gunstick Somebody already said - the rubber duck is cheaper and a lot less hallucinating
muddle
Zekovski ๐ผ
David Revoy (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Rubber Ducking #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
Onno James
Kumar McMillan@beyondmachines1 like Uber reinventing the bus but next level ๐ฅ
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Or maybe he's just noting that sometimes his AI acts more like a rubber duck than a chatbot?
@jonah
Or maybe he's just noting that sometimes his AI acts more like a rubber duck than a chatbot?
@jonah
Daarin@beyondmachines1 that's called rubberducking where I come from.
Rachel Rawlings@beyondmachines1 The billion-dollar-a-week rubber duck rental.
Aral Balkan
Ryek DarkenerGood to know that AI enables own thinking at least for a handful of people. If really so, it is worth propagating it.
@beyondmachines1 I fully expect a pointless geologist like "pre-prompt engineering" to be coined by him to describe it.
Monarkie
Feisty@beyondmachines1 Imagine that you could help yourself solve a problem by writing it down ๐คฏ
DTrasler Writing@beyondmachines1 You want the kids to do this, call it "rawdogging AI" and tell them they shouldn't try it....