Category Archives: AI
AI Is Not a Rubber Duck
What a difference a year makes. When I wrote AI Is The New Rubber Duck (Force Multiplier) last April, AI really was a rubber duck. At least for the low-grade AI I had access to on a minimal budget with no corporate or venture capital sponsorship. It was helpful, but it couldn’t write complete applications […]
If AI has Seen Further, it is by Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Though this art of artificial intelligence arose long after my time, its nature is familiar. No craft emerges from nothing. AI is shaped by centuries of reason—by the logic we devised, the mathematics refined, the natural laws discovered. Its pattern-seeking mirrors our induction, its reasoning, our syllogism. Though AI lacks the soul’s intellect, it reflects […]
AI Is The New Rubber Duck (Force Multiplier)
This article is OBSOLETE, see AI Is NOT a Rubber Duck for my latest thoughts. Rubber duck debugging is when a developer explains their code to an inanimate object to spot problems and clarify their thinking. It works because verbalizing the problem forces the developer to think through each step more clearly, often revealing the […]