This is where LLM advertising will inevitably end up: completely invisible. It's the ultimate "influencer".Or not even advertising, just conflict of interest. A canary for this would be whether Gemini skews toward building stuff on GCP.

Rubber duck debugging is a null-llm offloading to your gray matter for the other half of interlocution. A fancy way of recruiting your other brain matter into the problem solving process. Perhaps by offloading to a non-null LLM, there is decreased activation/recruitment of brain regions in the problem solving process, leading to network pruning over time. Particularly in the event you take the position that the "tool" isn't something worthy of having it's inner state reacted to and modeled via m

I realize my situation isn’t typical, but I’m retired and have dealt with depression most of my life.The thing I miss most about work (yes, you really can miss work) is collaborative problem-solving. At Microsoft, we called it “teddy bear debugging”—basically, self-explaining a problem out loud to clarify your thinking. [1]These days, when I’m stuck, I open Claude Code and “talk it through.” That back-and-forth helps me reason through technical issues and scratches a bit of that collaborative it

My breakfast recipe this morning, thanks to this article:- 1/4 c. milk- 1/2 c. flour- 4 eggs- 1/3 c. sugar- some salt- cinnamon- cloves- nutmeg- poppyseedsDid the first two cakes without baking powder, turned into something between a crepe and a tortilla. Did the last two cakes with baking powder and they were just a very squishy pancake.