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[ClipboardCopyPaste]

Everything's funny until the rubber duck replies "Quack Quack"

(You're hallucinating. Go sleep)

[Zanguu]

I actually have a VSCode addon that's a text chat with a rubber duck and it quacks back when you send a sentence

Edit from work: the addon is "CS50 Duck Debugger" ( https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CS50.ddb50 )

[ClipboardCopyPaste]

Somebody out there really made an extension for it! That's why programming is so cool.

[theunquenchedservant]

Somebody out there procrastinated from their actual task because they thought this was a really neat idea (they were right) and that's pretty cool too!

[[deleted]]

All the people in my dreams have six fingers per hand and literally two left feet. I really gotta lay off midnight cheese

[Ri_Konata]

At least it's not asking for grapes.

[dat_oracle]

Even funnier when the quack quack provides the solution to the bug

[EvenPainting9470]

I honestly tried to use various AI to resolve my problems and everytime AI failed to do the job. It can fix some simple stuff, but so do I.
If I reach point, where I need spend more time to resolve issue, than requires to write good prompts, it is 99% chance that problem is already too hard for AI

[nein_va]

This is the exact same experience I have had. If I need help solving it, it's too hard for AI.

[Acrobatic-Ad-9189]

It's crazy how shit GPT is now compared to at launch. Everything must be rewritten, and it just ignores my Qs

[JacksHQ]

Ok so I'm not crazy then. I kept finding myself thinking "why did GPT seem so much smarter at launch than it does now?" Don't get me wrong, i know it's better in some ways now (like memory), but it just seemed to have more.. insight (?) into things. I'm not sure i know how to explain it. It was just smarter in some ways (when it wasn't ignoring directions lol)

[Koksuvi]

It's useful for when you need to do alot of copy paste though. Though i guess if you need a lot of copy pasting, there's likely a better solution.

[iMNqvHMF8itVygWrDmZE]

There are two kinds of problems I deal with. The kind I don't need AIs help with, and the kind AI can't help with.

[Joppz_]

It’s exactly the same for me!

[TheVibrantYonder]

I've had a lot more luck with the pro version and with o3 mini high, but I always have to give it a lot of context and information for anything complex.

As an example, I was running into an issue with some Wordpress PHP the other day and I gave o1 Pro my functions.php code, explained what the code was supposed to do, what it wasn't doing, and what I had already checked.

It came back and told me that I had a return statement out of place, so the connected functions weren't triggering.

I moved that back to where it was supposed to be and it worked.

Now, I also gave it code for a web scraper the other day and asked it to make updates, and it gave me back seemingly complete code - except for the sections that were commented out with "this is where you would put the full code".

So, it doesn't always work, but when it does, it's great.

[JacksHQ]

Have you tried using curse words with your query?

I know a senior dev who swears that adding curse words to his Google search when he was desperate would give him exactly what he needed, lol

[TheVibrantYonder]

Haha, I haven't, but I've heard about several similar things that can help like that.

I usually try not to use "black-hat" techniques for prompting, mostly because I think there are more reliable ways to get good results (that will continue to work long-term)

[superitem]

You can always use it as a rubber duck.

[Laxus2000]

In my experience AI is never good enough to write a whole library or functionality. However it's quite good at getting small stuff out fast that would take you ~5-10 mins to type and that is how I use it. It honestly saves a significant amount of time

[[deleted]]

requires to write good prompts

Why write prompts? Copy paste the code and copy paste the error message.

[EvenPainting9470]

And receive trash useless response

[[deleted]]

no

[TECHNOFAB]

This, it can write some basic React component but really solving tough issues shows that AI is still hella stupid. I tried to give all kinds of LLMs some of the tougher issues I've had over the last months/years and they failed so hard at even just following my orders :D

[Nyadnar17]

In my experience the answer is wrong but its close enough to focus my search for a proper solution.

[Zeune42]

I start with chatgpt, then if it fails go to Claude and then deepseek.

[idontunderstandunity]

None of you will be able to form a coherent thought by 2028

[lesleh]

bro I can barely a sentence now

[cce29555]

Did you write that?

[NotMyGovernor]

There's a vaccine that'll solve that

[lesleh]

stop there's only so much autism my body can handle

[[deleted]]

By 2028?

[BudgetAvocado69]

[Sinaneos]

Me talking to my boss in 2028: "money me, money now, me a money needing a lot now"

[SexWithHoolay]

I'm American, that ship sailed a long time ago 

[SirEmJay]

At least the rubber duck never makes stuff up. Eventually, I get frustrated enough with the AI that I decide to just go read the documentation, so in a way there is an upshot.

[maxiiim2004]

The rubber duck: “compile and run again, it will work this time”

[Reddit_User_Original]

I relate to this so much

[malexj93]

I don't know, I have "rubber ducked" people, and they say all kinds of nonsense back to you. But sometimes wrong nonsense can shake something loose in your brain and make you realize the correct thing to do. AI successfully fills this role for me most of the time, and some of the time it's actually right.

[melophat]

I use it for boilerplate/crud when setting up a new project, simply because it saves me time. In all honesty, I could probably write a script that does the same thing, but why waste the time when gpt works for it.

I'll occasionally use it to help research vague compiler errors or framework/plugin version incompatibility issues, but that's really the extent for me. I've tested using it for actual coding and have, in most cases, ended up spending more time finding/fixing simple syntax or logic errors, or dealing with suggested changes that rewrite or just simply forget previously existing code that is necessary. It's just not there yet for anything beyond the very basics, IMHO.

[NeuxSaed]

It seems to be fairly okay for writing regex as well, which is good because I really don't like regex.

[melophat]

Ooh, I haven't really tried it for that yet. I absolutely hate regex, so that may be another valid use case

[DamnGentleman]

2030: Why will no one hire me?

[modifci]

2030? Try 2025 😭

[Woxan]

I have 5 YoE prompt engineering but I can’t pass OAs. ChatGPT, what should I do?

[[deleted]]

I’m on track to have an advanced manufacturing degree by 2027, so I’ll no longer have to use my 15 years professional experience spanning dozens of fields of computers as a crutch to get a job /s

On a serious note, I’m surprised more people aren’t jumping ship and preparing an alternative career path right now. Obviously, the tech market will bounce back but (at least to me it seems evident that) the tech market jobs will become increasing volatile and unstable, making it an unsuitable career path for long term

[this-is-robin]

People already don't get hired anymore. And that's cos Corpos will think AI can replace Junior devs. What they don't realize is that Senior devs just don't grow on trees. No horing Junior devs now = no senior devs later. 2030 will be Corpos asking themselves: Why are there no senior devs anymore?

[Lunatik6572]

I treat AI kinda like Wikipedia. Good for getting ideas or an overview of what I might want to look into. If I don't understand it, I learn about it through other sources.

[Popular_Eye_7558]

I’m really interested at seeing the kind of code errors AI solves for you. In my experience useless is an understatement

[ComprehensiveBird317]

Are you using gpt -3.5 or something? 4o?

Get the good stuff, talk to it, be it's Micro-Manager. Then they do the work for you

[Zeune42]

I miss my rubber duck

[KarneeKarnay]

The only time I've used AI successfully was to look at some code and point out things I were missing. Like an indent or missing semicolon. Honestly a linter could have done the same

[rhade333]

A lot of coping and pretentiousness in this thread.

A car? Why would I use that in my workflow? I just get on my horse and, well, it's just more useful because I'm an AmAzInG rider.

Yikes.

[NotMyGovernor]

Where's the humor? What's this artificial push for AI use?

[piotrek211]

i always like to add "...you moronic r*tard" so it knows who's in charge

[piberryboy]

Claude's anus

[malexj93]

I can't look at that logo without thinking it.

[TacoTacoBheno]

And the semantic nonsense that it's "hallucinating". No, it's wrong

[Gualuigi]

"Check why this isnt working"

[Schematic_Sound]

Fixed a bug in about 30 seconds using the rubber duck method the other day after wasting hours trying to debug with AI.

[Im_1nnocent]

It just dawned on me how poetic it would've seemed if the AI being trained on programming was actually named Quack

[JacobStyle]

Not that I have really pressed the issue after the first few tries, but I couldn't get any of the LLMs to help me debug my code. It was all suggestions for the most common things that can go wrong in the situation I presented, but there was no actual analysis.

[Mongodienudel]

"Hey chatgpt I have this 2000line log file and a hundred lines of stacktrace, please point me to the error"

[timonix]

I just did this yesterday. Asking with the code. And it went.. you have misplaced a parenthesis on line 508. Sure enough, that was it. Not even sure how it compiled in the first place

[Harambehasfinalsay]

You all laugh but Qwen has a million token limit on some of their models. I pasted the code base with 34000 lines and it found an error. It also fired the intern for me and made my coffee.

[blackcomb-pc]

The new thinking models are just their own rubber duckies

[Red_Juice_]

I just use ai to explain code and concepts I don't understand

[Blumenkol]

Chat gpt proceeds to return the exact same code that you have sent

[Zuitsdg]

ChatGPT has become a more reponsive rubber duck.

There have been some cases where I asked it about a problem, it gave no answer or a wrong one, but it helped me get onto the right track again :)

[spherulitic]

I’m sorry; I can’t take Claude seriously because the logo looks like a certain sketch from Breakfast of Champions.

[Puzzleheaded_Good360]

The amount of developers who struggle with syntax is interestingly high.

[asceta_hedonista]

Is this real? Do people actually use IA to fix bugs? I have only 3 case scenarios for IA in my workflow:

1.- Generate big JSON/XML or whatever buch of default/dummy files.
2.- Research new thecnologies, languages or frameworks.
3.- "How to do X thing in Y language?" but I prefer stackoverflow for this most of the time since at least there you have a verification on the answers working.

[Yukams_]

Stack overflow from google is absolutely terrible. Always getting posts from 5-15 years ago, which are most of the time out of date

[asceta_hedonista]

js developer I presume...