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Programmers have been doing this for ages. It’s called rubber duck debugging.
I find a Labrador more effective.
Pretty much any object or animal will work. I wouldn’t try it with a grizzly bear, though.
i hope the next thing they discover is “being quiet”
Maybe if they learn to use this new pastime of thinking, they.l think so long we won’t have to hear their thoughts anymore—until, of course, they think so much that they realize “AI” is dumb as hell and a drain on our dying planets dwindling resources and a money grab for the wealthiest of the upper class and solidifies power in the ruling class by holding the threat of free labor over the working class’ heads and that paying these horrible capitalists to use their empty promise machine (that also happens to be a plagiarism machine) that runs on the blood of workers and the last drops of our climate’s blood is a really bad idea!
But maybe I’m just being too hopeful. It’s the future now and I’m not a fan.
Exactly. Not an AI phenomenon
One critical benefit of the rubber duck is that it doesn’t make things up.
This is mechanically similar, I agree, but I think the rubber duck is still superior.
And, I think this should be a “lightbulb” moment for people.
One critical benefit of the rubber duck is that it doesn’t make things up.
You obviously haven’t seen me rubber duck debug.
I disagree. The rubber duck does not propose alternatives, nor does it point out flaws.
The flaws may be wrong, but then I have to justify it, which forces me to reconsider what I’ve written.
It’s like having a script monkey that never took a CS class to bounce ideas off of.
But if you bounce enough ideas off the junior dev, some of those ideas will stick and slowly turn them into a senior dev. On the other hand, junior devs cost money and they waste a lot of water.
The junior devs are always taken into other projects when I need them the most :/ or was at least.
Plus it’s not like it matters anymore. I haven’t done anything but review code and prioritize backlogs and get yelled at by management that my development team isnt under control and that business doesn’t like it when I bring up things that will impact timeline when I was told the wrong priority of other shit.
I’m starting to feel like this Senior role is really just a new title for dealing with more bullshit and doing less productive work.
I sincerely wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours.
Ok thank you!
Which is precisely what I use AI for.
It doesn’t know how to do anything, but it can help me find flaws.
If your use for AI is just rubber duck debugging, an actual rubber duck is significantly less environmentally destructive, and will still be around after OpenAI burn through all their seed capital and can no longer convince investors to keep throwing money into their trash fire.
A lot of assumptions in that post, but I agree in general. I’ve been working software for too long, and I know co-pilot or whatever it’s called that Microsoft has won’t be around in the long run.
It’s a neat tool for now. It also isn’t complaining all the time which I like
I didn’t know there was a term for that. Forget debugging, in my algorithms class this is how I figured a lot of stuff out the first time too. I actually don’t know how else you’re supposed to do it. You imagine running through a loop, what specific tasks must be accomplished, and then code those tasks.
Imagine then doing this in a chatGPT prompt! Everything will go so much faster, even if you don’t press “send”!
I recognize this is a sub for hating on AI, but this is some low hanging fruit. This is just not a person familiar with organizing their thoughts and seeing the benefit of it and doesnt say shit about AI.
Yup. Used to do this with Reddit. I’d find a niche subreddit on some topic I was having trouble with, try and write a detailed post of what my problem was, try and include as much information as I already knew and checked, proofread it so I could ensure people understood what my problem was, and in the process something would click and I’d figure it out.
This and the “I asked AI …” posts are so annoying to me
Are you really that mindless that you can’t conjure thoughts or opinions that are purely your own ?
That so many people have fully jumped on the “use AI for everything” train has been a disturbing thing to see. It’s clear that a large percentage of humanity doesn’t want to think, learn or use their brain for anything. I’m guessing part of that is that they’re so dumb that doing any of those things is so hard for them and they fail at even the most basic tasks that they feel AI is a godsend.
I’ve even seen people ask others to use AI for them, which is just an astounding level of laziness and idiocy. One was right here on Lemmy, someone wanted a cutout from an image in a post, a vector image with clear black outlines of the thing they wanted, and not only could they not do it themselves, they thought no one else could, only AI, and they couldn’t even figure out how to do it via that so they asked for someone else to use AI to do it…
I still feel whiplashed from seeing that.
If your prompts aren’t good enough, consider getting an AI to write them for you.
I mean, we’re almost at that point 🙄
If this reaction were physically possible, I would have made it after reading that:
That is a level of lack of self-awareness I haven’t seen in ages. No wonder these idiots believe AGI is right around the corner. They’re modelling it after themselves.
the “I” stood for Idiot all along.
I just watched a video by a prompt a guy wrote that writes good prompts. He adds his subject to the prompt-generating prompt, then uses its output as the actual prompt.
Novak is one of the voices I miss from the old Twitter. If you never have, do yourself a favor and read his long form article on historical grifter Napoleon Hill: https://paleofuture.com/blog/2016/12/6/the-untold-story-of-napoleon-hill-the-greatest-self-help-scammer-of-all-time
Well. He’s on Bluesky. Presumably doing the same thing he did on Twitter.
edit: typo
ChatGPT as a life coach.
Doesn’t load?
Then why can’t people who’s whole personality is politics?
