What If Talking to Ducks Actually Makes Sense? | AI Prompt Engineering for Developers
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from Shayeta@feddit.org to programming@programming.dev on 05 Feb 09:52
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from Shayeta@feddit.org to programming@programming.dev on 05 Feb 09:52
https://feddit.org/post/25364796
First video on writing code with LLMs I’ve seen that is actually sensible, is well aware of limitations of LLMs, and gives solid advice.
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The only difference is that the duck doesn’t consume the water of a small county and more electric than needed to put a man on the moon.
Also ducks aren’t easily prompted to generate CP.
I prefer talking to my rubber ducky because I can tell they are a true professional. They are not giving you any feedback unless they are absolutly certain it works.
I wouldn’t give my rubber duck access to my system and then cry on twitter when he deletes my filesystem.
Please give me link!
These are just the first two I could find, but there are plenty of similar stories that have passed by.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident/
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part
Can’t wait to have a laugh in the office about this tomorrow
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