So I asked AI and... So I asked my cat and...

[dpnash@c.im]

@benteg @catsalad "Rubber duck" sessions with a cat are much better than with any flavor of "AI".

Me: "Argh. I'm having trouble frobulizing the mibbler object in this Python module. It keeps running out of glunks before the frobulizer is done."
Cat: meow
Me: "So...what do you think about bobulizing it first? That might clear some of the glunks out of the skrebble cache. A full cache can slow things down a lot."
Cat: meow
Me (stops to pet cat, which helps clear my brain a bit)
Cat: meow
Me: "Thinking about it some more ... yeah, I'll want to bobulize things first. The latest release of AWS Frogspawn Ciabatti Cloud definitely uses glunks less efficiently than AWS Blobcat TreeTrunk did."
Cat: meow
Me: "Now that I've cleared up the slow step, I should be able to frobulize the mibbler now. Thanks!"
Cat: meow
Me: "Love you too."

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@dpnash @benteg They really are!!

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@catsalad
...And I asked my cat to ask my Ai.

[jay0@alico.nexus]

@catsalad@infosec.exchange isn't chatgpt literally pronounced the same as "cat i farted" in french or something?

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@catsalad no drake.

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@catsalad @dpnash @benteg

whilst I've not discussed technical stuff with a cat (I don't even have one of my own, but a neighbours ginger tom regularly visits), we sit and meow together both indoors and out in the street, in full view of the neighbours, which makes far more sense than any AI

[jay0@alico.nexus]

@catsalad@infosec.exchange took a bit to find it but kghdjaklhgjlkag

[defer@mastodon.social]

@flipper @catsalad

[zimme83@mastodon.nu]

@catsalad catGPT.

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@dpnash @benteg @catsalad @catsalad
Cat's probably like "why are you still running Frogspawn?"

[catboycody@tech.lgbt]

@catsalad Does a large plush cat count? Have one sitting on my desk and after hours of discussions with Rust's borrow checker, I had to rest my face in it and scream internally...

[eribosot@mastodon.social]

@dpnash @benteg @catsalad I'm still from the pre-rubber duck generation, when you would bother a colleague with your problem and it was called "Debugging by Confession."

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@catsalad Murp? Me-eh-ow.

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@catsalad There's no comparison.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@dpnash @benteg @catsalad If I didn't know any better, you've gone crazy and started speaking gibberish. Don't worry. we all do it.

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad

So I asked AI and it hallucinated
So I asked my cat, she meowed and quoted citations

[rndanger@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad
"So i asked __ and pretended __ responded to my question with a reply that made sense"

[spjames@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad I overheard a colleague having a conversation with an LLM, behaving as if it understood what was said to it. Ridiculous!

Went home and told the dog. We had a good laugh about it.

[dpnash@c.im]

@mrgrumpymonkey @benteg @catsalad Spending all day trying to get AWS Ridiculously Named Cloud Thing to do what you need it to do is enough to get anyone speaking gibberish.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@dpnash @benteg @catsalad I don't use AWS, but I know someone who does. So, sometimes I get to listen to the jargon. As one who's worked as an IT Consultant, sometimes we'd just end up talking nerdy to each other, while everyone who was less technical would look at us in utter confusion. I, also, talk to my cat when I'm trying to figure out a problem. They help so much.