Lo and behold

[hdunagan@mastodon.social]

@beyondmachines1 Thinking! It’s what’s for dinner!

[jess@blop.social]

@beyondmachines1 "Talking to the bear."

[cptbutton@dice.camp]

@beyondmachines1

My 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.")

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@beyondmachines1

The stupid shit stupid people admit to. Gah'damn.

Xers broke their kids.

[ben@mastodon.lubar.me]

@beyondmachines1 programmers have been referring to "thinking" as "rubber duck debugging" since before I was born

[renata@cosocial.ca]

@beyondmachines1 @briankrebs ‍️

[austinross@social.lol]

@ben @beyondmachines1 Talking to the wall is good for you actually

[ben@mastodon.lubar.me]

@austinross @beyondmachines1 sometimes you just need to talk to someone about your problems and it doesn't matter if that person is alive or even real

[austinross@social.lol]

@ben @beyondmachines1 I’m great company

[shaknais@mastodon.social]

@beyondmachines1

David Revoy (@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org)

Attaché : 1 image Rubber Ducking #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Framapiaf (framapiaf.org)

[theogrin@chaosfem.tw]

@beyondmachines1

[yetzt@social.yetzt.me]

@beyondmachines1 the fabled planet killing rubber duck.

[64@mastodon.nz]

@austinross @ben @beyondmachines1 ffs they invented RDaaS

[stux@mstdn.social]

@beyondmachines1

[eviloatmeal@ak.angelstrapped.com]

@beyondmachines1 I'm going to sell them tokens to my new "low emissions agentic assistant".

[singletona@bitbang.social]

@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.'

[singletona@bitbang.social]

@theogrin @beyondmachines1

Bingo

[jakebrake@ohai.social]

@beyondmachines1

Maybe the real intelligence was the prompts we made along the way.

[wtl@mastodon.social]

@beyondmachines1 @renata

[mulbox@infosec.exchange]

@beyondmachines1 is this meta cognition?