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

[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.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@catsalad Well, I asked my supervisor, and she said: "you FOOL! The core is undergoing a total meltdown! You've doomed us all!"

[raganwald@social.bau-ha.us]

@vfrmedia @catsalad @dpnash @benteg

Simian:

“So we’re staring down the oiligarchs financing the far right everywhere, and we all know how much compassion fascism has for an old man whose first programs were SNOBOL on punch cards. And the tech wing of this looming darkness is about to determine whether the worldwide market for labour contracts by 35-75%, and whether that implodes their revenues giving us a Dead Economy, and…”

Feline:

Sssshing! (claws out)

——

Very helpful!

[raganwald@social.bau-ha.us]

@normjess @catsalad > one shits in his shoes

Gilbert Shelton, mastadonians, Gilbert Shelton.

[vt52@ioc.exchange]

@catsalad and if you insist on hallucinations, they're optional! just apply catnip.

[tazpoltorak@fosstodon.org]

@catsalad An LMM (Large Meowing Model) would halucinate by tracking invisible things, complaining that a 90%-full bowl is empty or bite you in the middle of a belly rub. Wait a minute ...

[mkroehnert@social.tchncs.de]

@dpnash
@catsalad
Reminds me of this masterpiece (in case you need a silent version)
https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2026_Rubber-Ducking-Avian-Intelligence/

[ppxl@social.tchncs.de]

@flipper @catsalad

[thegreatllama@kolektiva.social]

@dpnash @mrgrumpymonkey @benteg @catsalad
Wait, that shit was all real? I thought you were just riffing ridiculous names for comedic effect.

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@ppxl @catsalad well, if we're getting silly,

[ppxl@social.tchncs.de]

@flipper @catsalad I also feel there must me a better disagreement matter image in the first place, but rn i am rather limited