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rubber ducking
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Debugging by explaining a problem aloud to an inanimate object — traditionally a rubber duck, nowadays often an AI chatbot. Articulating the issue often reveals the solution.
"Was stuck for an hour, rubber-ducked it to Claude, realized the bug in my own first sentence."
Origin: From "The Pragmatic Programmer" (1999) by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas.
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