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A classic debugging technique: explain your code line by line to a rubber duck on your desk, and you'll often discover the answer yourself.

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Q: What's it called?

Rubber duck debugging. Verbalizing exposes the gaps in your thinking — even if the listener is a duck. These days many people explain to an AI instead and find the bug mid-sentence. Same principle.

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Rubber duck debugging
Verbalizing exposes the gaps in your thinking — even if the listener is a duck. These days many people explain to an AI instead and find the bug mid-sentence. Same principle.

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