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      Ha, I never knew this had an actual name.

      I thought it was known as talking to a brick wall, ie. if you have a issue talk to a brick wall and you’ll get the answer

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        It’s got more than a name, too: it’s got a Wikipedia page! Part of my job is IT support for normies, and I love sharing that with clients (because of course they’ve not heard of it). Usually gets a laugh, and I like to think they adopt the term and “rubber duck” things in their daily life thereafter.

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      yep, came to say the same thing.

      Sometimes thinking of the problem in a different way, such as describing it to another person, can help you look at it from a different direction and realize the problem.

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      Except that you are paid to make the rubber duck do most of the work, not do most of the work yourself.

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    That’s like how I cheated through every single test in school I’ve ever taken. I literally just paid attention to what the teacher said, wrote the answers down, wrote down more answers from the book, and then read them a couple times until I remembered them. I’d come in and just write down all those answers on the test and they’d never suspect a thing. I’ve still never been caught to this day and I even use it in my life outside of school.

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    Back in the days of usenet if I had a Linux problem I would carefully research the issue while composing a post asking how to solve it. I needed to make sure I covered every possible option so that people would know just how odd the problem was and that I had taken every reasonable step to fix it. And this was how I hardly ever had to post anything because this process almost always found the answer.

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      People who are using it to solve problems which require equivalent effort of writing a sufficient prompt and just directly solving it without AI at all for sure are AI folk.

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      I’ve seen some people on Twitter complain that their coworkers use ChatGPT to write emails or summarize text. To me this just echoes the complaints made by previous generations against phones and calculators. There’s a lot of vitriol directed at anyone who isn’t staunchly anti AI and dares to use a convenient tool that’s avaliable to them.

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        I’m not on twitter, but frankly the strongly anti-AI I see is often from techy places. HN and lemmy are two main ones.

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        I think my main issue with that use case is that it’s a “solution” to a relatively minor problem (which has a far simpler solution), that actually compounds the problem.

        Let’s say I don’t want to write prose for my email, I have a list of bullet points I want to get across. Awesome, I feed it into the chat gippity and boom, my points are (hopefully) property represented in prose.

        Now, the recipient doesn’t want to read prose. ESPECIALLY if it’s the fluffy wordy-internet-recipe-preamble that the chat gippity tends to produce. They want a bullet point summary. So they feed it into the chat gippity to get what is (hopefully) a properly condensed bullet point summary.

        So, suddenly we have introduced a fallible middle translation layer for actually no reason.

        Just write the clear bullet point email in the first place. Save everyone the time. Save everyone from the 2 chances for the chat gippity to fuck it up.

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        Case in point with you already having a downvote xD

        Edit: Lmao

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    Ineresting, will make a good topic for my next offline podcast (talking to my friends without a microphone).

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    What a feature. Blueskyians really don’t like birdsite.

    Also, hope somebody finds this comment (& Lemmy) via web search

    Possible Twitter screenshot

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    They have bumbled backwards into a new flavor of rubber duck debugging. Considering the likelihood of a rubber duck bullshitting you, I know which I’ll be interrogating.

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    Doesn’t have anything to do with AI. This is normal in any context where you’re asking another party for help.

    But sure, people who use AI have never considered thinking before /s