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Which is precisely what I use AI for.
It doesn’t know how to do anything, but it can help me find flaws.
If your use for AI is just rubber duck debugging, an actual rubber duck is significantly less environmentally destructive, and will still be around after OpenAI burn through all their seed capital and can no longer convince investors to keep throwing money into their trash fire.
A lot of assumptions in that post, but I agree in general. I’ve been working software for too long, and I know co-pilot or whatever it’s called that Microsoft has won’t be around in the long run.
It’s a neat tool for now. It also isn’t complaining all the time which I like
I didn’t know there was a term for that. Forget debugging, in my algorithms class this is how I figured a lot of stuff out the first time too. I actually don’t know how else you’re supposed to do it. You imagine running through a loop, what specific tasks must be accomplished, and then code those tasks.
Imagine then doing this in a chatGPT prompt! Everything will go so much faster, even if you don’t press “send”!
If your prompts aren’t good enough, consider getting an AI to write them for you.
I mean, we’re almost at that point 🙄
Programmers have been doing this for ages. It’s called rubber duck debugging.
I find a Labrador more effective.
Pretty much any object or animal will work. I wouldn’t try it with a grizzly bear, though.
i hope the next thing they discover is “being quiet”
Maybe if they learn to use this new pastime of thinking, they.l think so long we won’t have to hear their thoughts anymore—until, of course, they think so much that they realize “AI” is dumb as hell and a drain on our dying planets dwindling resources and a money grab for the wealthiest of the upper class and solidifies power in the ruling class by holding the threat of free labor over the working class’ heads and that paying these horrible capitalists to use their empty promise machine (that also happens to be a plagiarism machine) that runs on the blood of workers and the last drops of our climate’s blood is a really bad idea!
But maybe I’m just being too hopeful. It’s the future now and I’m not a fan.
This and the “I asked AI …” posts are so annoying to me
Are you really that mindless that you can’t conjure thoughts or opinions that are purely your own ?
I recognize this is a sub for hating on AI, but this is some low hanging fruit. This is just not a person familiar with organizing their thoughts and seeing the benefit of it and doesnt say shit about AI.
Novak is one of the voices I miss from the old Twitter. If you never have, do yourself a favor and read his long form article on historical grifter Napoleon Hill: https://paleofuture.com/blog/2016/12/6/the-untold-story-of-napoleon-hill-the-greatest-self-help-scammer-of-all-time
Well. He’s on Bluesky. Presumably doing the same thing he did on Twitter.
edit: typo
I just watched a video by a prompt a guy wrote that writes good prompts. He adds his subject to the prompt-generating prompt, then uses its output as the actual prompt.
ChatGPT as a life coach.
Doesn’t load?
Then why can’t people who’s whole personality is politics?
