Post #784044
2025-07-26 13:35 UTC
Replies (35)
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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town 2025-07-26 14:21
@jk I'm saving that one.
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@NovaNaturalist@mstdn.ca 2025-07-26 15:09
@jk I also find the best way to use AI is to entirely ignore an algorithm which is merely designed to generate something that looks plausible - and then to use your own reasoning and logic.
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@jigso@mastodon.social 2025-07-26 15:12
@jk the best AI for debugging software is the rubber duck (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging) but I am pretty sure it works in many domains
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@stormii@darmstadt.social 2025-07-26 15:50
@jk I've actually found myself often typing in a prompt for a LLM and while trying to figure out how to describe my problem to the dumb machine, I found a new idea on how to solve just that problem. So yeah many AI prompts can probably be replaced by an text editor
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@teacherbuknoy@masto.ai 2025-07-26 15:56
@jk so a self-hosted LLM, but the host is you and the self is also you and the LLM is also you. Got it.
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@usagijer@gweep.cat 2025-07-26 16:30
@jk Artificial Rubber Duck . call it ARDaaS , and sell subscriptions
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@ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com 2025-07-26 16:42
@jk But... But... But.... If I don't use "AI" how will I ever demolish the environment while churning out mountains of garbage based on stolen content and forgetting how to actually do anything?!?!?! "I used AI to....", is nothing more than, "Listen I'm not an asshole but....", for the 21st Century. #FuckAI
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@foolishowl@social.coop 2025-07-26 16:51
@jk I've wondered if the people who are required to use LLMs in their jobs could basically follow this method while piping LLM output into /dev/null.
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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu 2025-07-26 17:01
@jk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2025-07-26 17:21
@jk Like using aspirin as a contraceptive... between the knees
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@chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2025-07-26 17:28
@jk We need to wrap it in a more flashy terminology for Gen-Z. We need to give this a name... like SelfGPT? "Did you know there's a hidden subsystem in your own mind that can work like ChatGPT, but entirely eco-friendly and FREE? Here's a secret method for unleashing a true potential of your SelfGPT..." Then a hundred more TikToks about this secret technique, and we can call it a day.
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@irfelixr@discuss.systems 2025-07-26 17:31
@jk ✨💯
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@Shonascatchard@mastodon.scot 2025-07-26 18:49
@jk masterful!
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@PizzaDemon@mastodon.online 2025-07-26 19:06
@jk ok, but I'm using the LLM to send the thank you notes
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@zoelocke@toot.wales 2025-07-26 19:40
@jk The amount of times I've figured out the solution to my problem in the process of writing out my question on Stack Exchange, so I didn't even have to post it 😂
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@eymarde@mastodon.social 2025-07-26 21:43
@jk thanks
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@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au 2025-07-26 22:47
@jk I use the Jira comment field on the task to do this. Not using their AI, just leaving a comment with my thoughts at the time. It's then a historical record not just for me, but also for the reviewer.
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@squishymage42@dice.camp 2025-07-26 23:15
@jk I may or may not regularly walk up to my coworkers and ask if I can use them as a sounding board literally so that I can hear myself explain a problem to someone else. (The bonus when talking to a coworker is that sometimes they *also* get an idea and then I have TWO ideas to go back with)
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@philpetree@mastodon.social 2025-07-26 23:17
@jk I use LLM as a Mechanical Turk.
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@Iveyline@mastodon.social 2025-07-27 03:55
@jk A perfect solution. Use real intelligence!
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@hello@its.ryjelsum.me 2025-07-27 04:32
@jk better yet, just post all of it on fedi as you're thinking of it, and sometimes you can pull a real person along for the ride
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@pavel@social.kernel.org 2025-07-27 06:06
@jk Yeah, your friends and experts will be happy to do the work chatbot, google search, or stack overflow search could do.
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@dev@mrbot.de 2025-07-27 09:07
@jk @aparrish I don’t have friends… what about Stack Overflow?
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@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space 2025-07-27 14:44
@jk I'm incredibly amazed at how many Anti-AI people just assume thaat everyone has the same cognitive and social abilities and advantages that they have.
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@RogDolos@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-07-28 01:32
@jk LLMs. It really is just rubber-ducking.
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@njr@mathstodon.xyz 2025-07-28 08:05
@jk My friend Patrick had a related idea for playing the lottery. Each week, you pick your numbers but don’t buy a ticket. Then you watch the results come in and enjoy not having wasted money on a losing ticket. You save a small fortune. Of course (in the case of the UK lottery) 1 in 14 million times you will feed sad* when your numbers come up, but what are the odds? * I think Patrick actually said “have to kill yourself”, but that seems a bit extreme.
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@Chris_J_King@assemblag.es 2025-07-28 09:57
@jk absolute banger post 😘 exactly my thoughts on the matter
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@SusiArnott@mastodon.green 2025-07-28 11:57
@jk Thanks a million; and hadn't come across this term before :) #rubberducking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
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@violetpixel@corteximplant.net 2025-07-28 14:36
@jk Are we really reinventing problem solving? :bec_sigh:
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@paninid@mastodon.world 2026-03-25 23:25
@jk @cassidy I don’t bestow this score lightly: 17/10 for trollsmanship. Exquisite #shitposting form.
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@liberty@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-25 23:29
@jk This is why I love literate programming
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@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net 2026-03-26 01:49
@jk upskills one rather than deskills. deskilling is a trap that capitalist psychopaths want to lure labor into
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@octorine@fosstodon.org 2026-03-26 01:54
@jk The best use of ai I've found at work is it's ability to detect bullshit jobs. If you do a task with AI and nothing bad happens, the task was probably pointless.
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@sammypanda@aus.social 2026-03-26 03:54
@jk i love experts and know very few 😓
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@codinghorror@infosec.exchange 2026-03-26 11:56
@jk you mean .. like .. talking to a rubber duck? https://blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-problem-solving/