Lo and behold

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.'