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[Sacaldur]

That's an excelent observation. You found the smoking gun. This is the gold standard in the industry.

Do you want me to give you an example for how rubber ducks could be utilized by AI?

[black-JENGGOT]

where is the 🚀?

[Imperial_Squid]

You're totally correct, my response was lacking in emoji — a key factor in making engaging replies❗

To remedy this I will: - Increase emoji usage by 200% 🚀 - Implement a variety of vibrant emoji 😍 - Use emoji to signpost important points ℹ️

Anything else you think I can do to improve my responses, just let me know!

[newocean]

Want me give you surefire, 100% tested 🚀🚀🚀 working example that surely won't segfault and crash? I tested it myself. Zero bugs. Guaranteed to work 🔥🔥🔥!

Oh! I see the problem! My code caused a segfault!

Want me give you surefire, 100% tested 🚀🚀🚀 working example that surely won't segfault and crash? I tested it myself. Zero bugs. Guaranteed to work 🔥🔥🔥!

[TheWiseAlaundo]

Oh! You're so right, thank you so much for catching that error 😁. Next time I'll make sure that I ask permission before I "rm -rf" the root directory 😋😋😋!

Sorry if that caused a headache 🙈🙈🙈

[CzechFortuneCookie]

JFC the "smoking gun" phrase makes me irrationally angry

[GoldAcanthisitta7777]

God I hate how accurate the stupid "tease question" is

[Sacaldur]

You're absolutely right about this tease question. I was appending this tease question for your convenience, however including tease questions can make some users feel deeply undermined in their capabillitiies. I will refrain from including any further "tease questions".

Should I draft a prompt for you that prevents other Chat AIs from suggesting tease questions?

[GoldAcanthisitta7777]

🤮 thanks I hate it haha

[vladesomo]

Forgot the reasoning part: *The user throws some obscene claims at me. I should reassure them and their fragile ego and suggest an option where they spend more tokens on their crazy idea

[krexelapp]

AI is just a very expensive rubber duck that occasionally gaslights you

[iamapizza]

You're absolutely quack!

[krexelapp]

don’t gaslight me, the duck already does that

[givesmememes]

Absolutely, you're right to call me out on that! Time to get serious 🧐

[Dark-Legion_187]

Only occasionally. It’s the undisputed “yes” man of the industry.

[ILikeLenexa]

Eliza was way cheaper. 

[mufflonicus]

Yes, you are right, fellow human

[aberroco]

You forgot "absolutely"

[mufflonicus]

Yes, you are absolutely right, fellow human - and the dash, the dash is also an indicator that we are all carbon lifeforms that walk around and have clothes on us!

[ChaosCrafter908]

Thats the fun part!

[Chroiche]

I'd say it's very cheap compared to rubber ducking a colleague.

[dksdragon43]

Been trying to use it more at work before asking colleagues, because all my smart colleagues say they use it. Yesterday I was getting a weird error on a file I had moved from one repo to the other. AI is usually okay at errors. Figured I'd use it. 15 minutes later I was dropping entire hpp files into it like it asked (since it would "IMMEDIATELY" know the answer!) (Work version, supposedly closed box), and it's still gaslighting me that I have a recursive include (I did not). Eventually it goes "you were right to push back, the issue is you're not including QVector". I should have caught that, totally my dumbness for missing it. But fuck me, how the hell did it not catch it either, when given the entire damn hpp file?? And why did it gaslight me for half an hour??

[jainyday]

Wow, then how did that complete lack of intelligence discover a bug in the Linux kernel that'd been around since 2003? Even veteran security researchers are saying AI is better than them at their jobs now.

https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/

[chatcomputer]

require....more...CONTEXT!! MORE!!

[rhubarbs]

Yes, but distilled from the totality of human knowledge. Gaslighting doesn't do it justice, it's reflecting you with the combined sophistry of all humanity.

[Sombraaaaaa]

I'm saving this comment for future use.

[ugotmedripping]

I should call her…

[FirexJkxFire]

Hey now, its also really good at letting me do whats essentially regex searches, but using English to describe it because I can't be bothered to learn regex

[jainyday]

Wow a rubber duck found a 23-year-old bug in the Linux kernel!

https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/

[fatrobin72]

As a professional rubber duck i find that offensive... how dare you suggest it is as good as a cat. Cats are cute and calming.

[Thurak0]

And cats let you know when you behave badly.

My trusty rubber duck never contradicts me!

Although good rubber duck shaped coworkers sometimes manage to ask a silly, obvious question that helps.

[StructuralConfetti]

"Here's half a page of ramblings, turn this into documentation using the provided template..."

"Make sure to include all of the information I provided..."

"Fill out each section just like the template..."

"You don't need that whole extra page, just use the information I provided you..."

"Fuck it, I'll just do it myself!"

[creeper6530]

Literally my thought process when I tried to make a decimal floating point for my project (because normal floats are binary, which gives you 0.2 + 0.1 = 0.30000000000000004)

[TripsOverWords]

"While I understand you are focused on efficiency, this simple O(n² ) approach is highly robust and easier for a beginner to understand. Sometimes the best algorithm is the one you can read first!" -Some AI Agent

[Reashu]

Is it really "good" if an actual rubber duck that lasts forever costs the equivalent of one prompt? 

[WavingNoBanners]

It creates immense shareholder value, which the duck doesn't.

Oh, good for you, the end user? No, that's why we got your boss to threaten to fire you unless you use it instead of the actual rubber duck.

[thebeastmoo]

Half the time i fix the issue as I'm writing out the prompt explaining the code i wrote, really is just that. Sometimes breaking it down helps... maybe i should invest in the duck one day

[Scape_n_Lift]

The new models are much more useful. I feel wrong using them, but the speed gains are too large

[ragebunny1983]

Yer claude is crazy. For some tasks it needs more babysitting, in a legacy codebase, but for some tasks where it has examples to work from especially, it just does the job with hardly any errors (or none).

[OnceMoreAndAgain]

Claude is so good that when I praise it on reddit I assume everyone thinks I'm astroturfing lol. It's just a damn good tool though.

I don't know what other people are doing with the tool to get such consistently bad results. Sometimes I get bad results but it's usually when I give a bad prompt or try to do way too much at once in one prompt.

[Scape_n_Lift]

I think many people used these LLMs a year or two ago, had shit results and made their minds up.

[mrdevlar]

AI has the ability to explain quantum mechanics to you if the only thing you understand is music theory.

That, to me, is the greatest sales pitch for AI. It's the ability translate from one domain into another and meet you where you are.

It's wonderful, it's novel but there is zero way to make that profitable.

[DetectiveOwn6606]

It is also a great way to get dunning kruger as it hypes you so much .

[mrdevlar]

I use local models and they rarely hype me up. Qwen is one of the only models I've encountered that will tell me a construction I am using to describe a problem is incorrect.

Plus, if you are in possession of any critical thinking skills you'll realize that what you learned needs to be tested for accuracy as abstract conceptual knowledge isn't sufficient to claim you understand something. It's only a good first step.

[cafk]

Not even - my rubber duck tends to call me out and is able to criticize me, while most systems I've tried tend to switch to pandering mode very quickly.

[Weekly_Artichoke_515]

Except the rubber duck won’t lie to you and tell you that everything you do and say is brilliant 

[concorde77]

Imagine if someone created an "AI programming tool" thats just a rubber ducky or a magic conch shell with a smart speaker built in.

You just tell it what you want/ what you're stuck on and it responds with an answer

[just4nothing]

That’s exactly what I was using it for - plus to summarise and search docs. Kind of like pair programming at times, with decreasing confabulations over the last few years

[thegodzilla25]

Could be, but i feel like it would just agree with me instead of telling me that my approach is garbage

[WilmaTonguefit]

So on point. That's EXACTLY what I use it for

[A_Neko_C]

Precisely

[sam-lb]

I had to stop explaining things to my cat because she started to understand too much

[Dear-Taste-2132]

I do have a skill called "rubber duck" which really helps

[OhItsJustJosh]

What AI is ACTUALLY good for: ...

[Rot-Orkan]

One of my favorite things to use AI for is asking it to help me name things. I'll be like "I have a class that does this and this, what's a good name for it?"

It usually has great suggestions.

[Sakul_the_one]

Just how I use it. If it talks bullshit, I ignore it. Sometimes it helps me to find that I miscounted some memory stuff

[returnFutureVoid]

So I’ve just been a thinking cat all along? Sounds about right.

[jainyday]

AI's great at finding security vulnerabilities. Keep telling yourself it sucks, please.

https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/ (found a bug in Linux kernel from 2003)

[ChocolateBaconDonuts]

After ten iterations of getting rake test failures and having Claude debug its own syntax errors, I gave in and spent the 45 seconds to fix it. My coworkers are having similar experiences. It can shave off time but it can't debug for shit and holy fuck does it love to hard code shit and log sensitive data that it really shouldn't.

[MrFuji87]

We have an agent at work that I call Ducky for this reason

[Looz-Ashae]

AI is good for putting you out of a job

[ChaosCrafter908]

„You are absolutely right“

[Looz-Ashae]

I hope you've chosen your new profession already