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Much of the benefit of LLM is that it's a great interlocutor yes. The chatgpt app is an interactive notepad.


Yes! I'd like to find some time to explore and fine tune a model to act as an effective rubber duck.

I benefit greatly from talking to colleagues which helped me understand things by not saying much of the answer but by asking the right questions and "thinking together".

The current chat interface where each sentence gets an immediate response and the model always has to say something feels unnatural. But OTOH it's not easy to find the right balance, so I didn't make much progress. Probably I need to talk with somebody :-)

Anyway. Being senior naming engineer myself I already have the name for the product:

Robert Duck


No ML needed. Just hardcode a couple of

"That's interesting, tell me more"

"And why do you think that is?"

"And how does that make you feel?"


well, technically you can also use a literal rubber duck which doesn't say anything at all.


Yes, but you still have to train it.


You can do this now by simply telling it to use the Socratic method or your own variation of it




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