Brendan Halpin
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Lo and behold
Hdunagan
Jessie Rowbum 
@beyondmachines1 "Talking to the bear."
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
The Doctor
muddle
Renata π¨π¦π@beyondmachines1 @briankrebs π€¦ββοΈ
James ππ
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin π¦
Andrew Singleton
qwazix
Reiner Jung π¬π± πΊπ¦ πͺπΊ@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
stuxβ‘οΈ
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.'
Solo la π salva a la πMaybe the real intelligence was the prompts we made along the way.
WTL@beyondmachines1 @renata π€£π€£π€£π€£π€¦π»
Mulbox@beyondmachines1 πis this meta cognition? π¦
Richard W. Woodley π¨π¦πΉπ΄ββοΈI 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 
AverageJoe@beyondmachines1 "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved." - Charles Kettering
Mensch, Marina@AverageJoe @beyondmachines1 in our wonderful 
you'll be able to # askfedi - a crowd of very well filled brains to get solutions to your problem/prompt - plus a lot you didn't even ask for π€©
you'll be able to # askfedi - a crowd of very well filled brains to get solutions to your problem/prompt - plus a lot you didn't even ask for π€©
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
Will
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 πΆ@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.
Brains - The original quantum computer.
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@beyondmachines1 I LOL and behold π
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
WulfyβSpeaker to the machines"Rubber Ducky you're the one..."
Sesame Street: Ernie and his Rubber Duckie
Sam@beyondmachines1 What is your MCP for such a framework?
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 π¨π¦ @[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, itβs 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 thereβs some detail I still need to check
@[email protected] @[email protected] @mrfoostang @[email protected] However it happens, itβs a totally legit debugging technique π
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
Zekovski π§£
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 π₯
