Haha, that’s a good point. I think the main change from using these (reasoning) models is that I’m more cognizant of my thinking process, rather than there being a novel technique.

eh, writing it out is closer to "proto design document" or just plain ol "whiteboarding"

the only reason I haven't written a design doc or busted out the felt tip for my rubber duck is because it can't read.

Have you tried? Maybe it can.

I mean, I'm sure there's some founder out there pitching an AI-powered rubber duck dev productivity tool.

At the very least, someone at Copilot must have pitched a rubber duck avatar as the new Clippy by now...

But now the rubber duck can talk back and also on occasion hallucinate and lie to you to confirm your delusions.

I guess I'll stop using this really useful tool because someone else is incompetent.