| ▲ | flumpcakes 4 hours ago |
| I don't see how Claude helped the debugging at all. It seemed like the author knew what to do and it was more telling Claude to think about that. I've used Claude a bit and it never speaks to me like that either, "Holy Cow!" etc. It sounds more annoying than interacting with real people. Perhaps AIs are good at sensing personalities from input text and doesn't act this way with my terse prompts.. |
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| ▲ | AceJohnny2 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Even if the chatbot served only as a Rubber Ducky [1], that's already valuable. I've used Claude for debugging system behavior, and I kind of agree with the author. While Claude isn't always directly helpful (hallucinations remain, or at least outdated information), it helps me 1) spell out my understanding of the system (see [1]) and 2) help me keep momentum by supplying tasks. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging |
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| ▲ | NewJazz 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | A rubber ducky demands that you think about your own questions, rather than taking a mental back seat as you get pummeled with information that may or may not be relevant. | | |
| ▲ | supern0va 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I assure you that if you rubber duck at another engineer that doesn't understand what you're doing, you will also be pummeled with information that may or may not be relevant. ;) | | |
| ▲ | stephenr an hour ago | parent [-] | | That isn't rubber duck debugging. It's just talking to someone about the problem. The entire point of rubber duck debugging is that the other side literally cannot respond - it's an inanimate object, or even a literal duck/animal. | | |
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| ▲ | grimgrin an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm not saying you should do this, but you can do this: https://gist.github.com/shmup/100a7529724cedfcda1276a65664dc... | |
| ▲ | MBCook an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | They also don’t waste electricity, water, drive up the prices of critical computer components, or DDOS websites to steal their content. |
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| ▲ | bitwize 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's like I keep saying, it probably wasn't a good idea to give our development tools Genuine People Personalities... |
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| ▲ | H8crilA 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| AIs are exceptional at sensing personalities from text. Claude nailed it here, the author felt so good about the "holy cow" comments that he even included them in the blog post. I'm not just poking this, but saying that the bots are fantastic sycophants. |
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| ▲ | IshKebab 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | No they aren't. Current LLMs always have that annoying over-eager tone. The comment about Claude being pumped was a joke. | | |
| ▲ | simondotau 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It depends how much the LLM has been beaten into submission by the system prompt. | |
| ▲ | stackghost 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | ChatGPT set to "terse and professional" personality mode is refreshingly sparse on the "you're absolutely right" bullshit |
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